Cwmyoy
Cwmyoy is an extensive rural parish in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Cwmyoy is an extensive rural parish in Monmouthshire, Wales. The standard Welsh name is Cwm Iau or Cwm-iau. In the Gwentian dialect of Welsh that was spoken here until the late 1800s, the name was pronounced as Cwm Iou. The 'English' name is in fact this local dialect form in a more English spelling. The name of the valley probably originates from the Welsh word iau meaning yoke, in reference to the shape of the hill surrounding it.
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Worth seeing in and around Cwmyoy
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St Martin's Church
The Church of St Martin, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, Wales, was begun in the 12th century, although most of the current structure dates from the 13th century. The church is most notable for its extreme tilt, the result of a landslide.
200 m · church in Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 02Pen y Clawdd Castle
Pen y Clawdd Castle is a ditched mound with a double moat, roughly circular in shape, with a diameter of approximately 28m to 30m and about 2.4m high. The castle is in Llanvihangel Crucorney, about five miles to the north of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in south east Wales and lies between the Usk and Monnow rivers.
3.3 km · archaeological site in Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bryn Arw
Bryn Arw is a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south Wales. It lies 4 km north of the town of Abergavenny and 1.5 miles west of the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney.
3.5 km · hill (384m) in Monmouthshire · Wikipedia - 04Hatterrall Hill
Hatterrall Hill is a rounded peak in the Black Mountains which sits on the Wales-England border, partly in Monmouthshire, Wales and partly in Herefordshire, England. Its summit at 531m is the high point of a peaty plateau which falls away steeply on all sides.
2.7 km · hill (531m) in Monmouthshire · Wikipedia - 05St Issui's Church
The Church of St Issui, Partrishow, Powys, Wales, is a Grade I listed parish church dating from 1060. The existing building was mainly constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries and was sensitively restored in 1908–1909.
2.1 km · church in Patrishow, Powys, Wales · Wikipedia - 06Millbrook
Millbrook, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire is a house dating from the early 17th century and is a Grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · house in Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 07Barn At Trewyn Farm
The barn at Trewyn Farm, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire is part of a complex of farm buildings dating from the late 16th century. The barn has a Grade II* listing, with the Old farmhouse at Trewyn Farm and Trewyn Farmhouse having separate Grade II listings.
2.8 km · building in Crucorney, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Trewyn House
Trewyn House, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a country house dating from 1692. Its origins are older but the present building was constructed by the Delahayes at the very end of the 17th century when the house sat in Herefordshire.
3 km · house in Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 09Ty-hwnt-y-bwlch
Ty-Hwnt-y-Bwlch Farmhouse,, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse in the north of the county dating from the late 16th century. Located on the hillside above the Church of St Martin, it is a Grade II* listed building.
800 m · historic site in Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia - 10St. Michael and All Angels, Llanvihangel Crucorney
St Michael's Church stands in the centre of the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1956 for its historic importance and surviving medieval features.
3.7 km · grade II listed building in Crucorney, in the centre of Llanvihangel Crucorney village · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cwmyoy
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 106 km
- Stations
- Llanvihangel railway station, 3.7 km
- Cardiff → Cwmyoy48 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £6–7
- Bristol → Cwmyoy58 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cwmyoy100 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cwmyoy
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cwmyoy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
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Next door to Cwmyoy
Cwmyoy is 48 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Crucorneycommunity in Monmouthshire, Wales1.9 km
- Oldcastlevillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Pandyvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales3.9 km
- Llanvihangel Crucorneyvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.7 km