Mynydd Llangorse, Brecon Beacons

Name: Mynydd Llangorse
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#76 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Mynydd Llangorse is a hill on the western edge of the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, south Wales. It lies two miles east of Llangors and its lake and 5 miles south of Talgarth. Its summit at 515m overtops the location 600m to the south at which a trig point is sited by 9m. The broad spur of Cefn Moel extends south towards the village of Bwlch whilst a spur to the southeast forms Pen Tir which reaches just over 450m above sea level. It is a Marilyn with a prominence of 161 metres. ()

Coordinates: 51°55'56"N, 3°13'29"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Mynydd Llangorse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Llangorse Lake, Tretower Court, Tretower Castle, Llangynidr Bridge.

1.6 miW
Fishing and boating in a historic setting
Llangorse Lake, Brecon Beacons
42 min walk • Llangorse Lake is the largest natural lake in Mid and South Wales, and is situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park, near the town of Brecon and the village of Llangors.
3.8 miSE
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Tretower Court, Brecon Beacons
97 min walk • Tretower Court is a medieval fortified manor house in Wales, situated in the village of Tretower, near Crickhowell in modern-day Powys, previously within the historical county of Breconshire or Brecknockshire.
3.8 miSE
Forts and castles
Tretower Castle, Crickhowell
97 min walk • Tretower Castle is a Grade I-listed ruined castle in the village of Tretower in the county of Powys, Wales. It was built around the beginning of the twelfth century as a motte and bailey castle and this was probably replaced mid-century by a stone shell keep.
4 miS
Bridge
Llangynidr Bridge, Brecon Beacons
102 min walk • Llangynidr Bridge, also known as "Coed-yr-Ynys Bridge", is an early 18th-century bridge that crosses the River Usk to the north of Llangynidr, Powys, Wales. It carries the B4560 road towards Bwlch.
1.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Troed, Brecon Beacons
42 min walk • Mynydd Troed is a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, south Wales. Its name literally translates to "Foot Mountain," based how it appears when viewed from the Allt Mawr ridge.
3.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Allt-mawr, Brecon Beacons
85 min walk • Pen Allt-mawr is a 719 metres high subsidiary summit of Waun Fach and the third highest peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales.
2.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Castell Dinas, Brecon Beacons
63 min walk • Castell Dinas is a hillfort and castle in southern Powys, Wales. At 450 m it has the highest castle in England and Wales. It is positioned to defend the Rhiangoll pass between Talgarth and Crickhowell.
2.5 miS
Forts and castles
Blaenllynfi Castle, Brecon Beacons
64 min walk • Blaenllynfi Castle is a privately owned ruinous stone castle near the village of Bwlch in southern Powys, Wales. It was probably built in the early thirteenth century.
3.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Pwll y wrach, Talgarth
96 min walk • Pwll y wrach or Pwll-y-wrach is a feature on the River Ennig near Talgarth in south Powys, Wales. The river plunges in two separate streams over a lip of hard rock into a pool scoured in the softer mudstones of the underlying Raglan Mudstone formation.
3.5 miN
Museum
Trefeca, Brecon Beacons
90 min walk • Trefeca, located between Talgarth and Llangorse Lake in what is now south Powys in Wales, was the birthplace and home of the 18th-century Methodist leader Howell Harris.
2.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Allt yr Esgair, Brecon Beacons
64 min walk • Allt yr Esgair is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, Wales. It is commonly referred to locally as simply 'The Allt'. The Welsh name signifies 'wooded slope of the ridge'.