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Cwrt-y-Gollen

Cwrt-y-Gollen is a British Army training base, 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Crickhowell and just north of the A40 road and the River Usk, in southeastern Powys, Wales.

The place

Cwrt-y-Gollen is a British Army training base, 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Crickhowell and just north of the A40 road and the River Usk, in southeastern Powys, Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cwrt-y-Gollen

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.

  1. 01
    Crickhowell Castle

    Crickhowell Castle is a Grade I listed building in Crickhowell, Wales, now largely ruined. An alternative name, "Alisby's Castle", is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle, Gerald Alisby.

    2.1 km · castle in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Crug Hywel

    Crug Hywel is an Iron Age Celtic hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart. Crug Hywel is approached by a couple of public footpaths across farmland from Crickhowell and Llanbedr and visited by the Beacons Way.

    3.8 km · hillfort on summit of hill in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Crickhowell Bridge

    Crickhowell Bridge is an 18th-century bridge that spans the River Usk in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. The main A4077 road to Gilwern crosses it.

    2.3 km · bridge in Crickhowell, mid-Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Edmunds King & Martyr Parish Church, New Road

    St Edmund's Church is located in Crickhowell, in southeastern Powys, Wales. Built in the early 14th century, the church is dedicated to Saint Edmund the king and martyr.

    2.3 km · church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Llanwenarth House

    Llanwenarth House is a small country house, formerly a hotel, located off the B4246 road, west of Govilon and Llanfoist, just south of Abergavenny in the Usk valley of Monmouthshire, Wales. It was built in the late 16th century, although the drawing room and some of the furnishings are from the Georgian period.

    3.8 km · house in Govilon, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Clydach House

    Clydach House, Llanelly, Monmouthshire is a house dating from 1693. Constructed as the home for the manager of an ironworks in the nearby Clydach Gorge, it remains a private residence and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · house in Llanelly, Powys, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Crickhowell Market Hall

    Crickhowell Market Hall, formerly Crickhowell Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. The structure, which accommodates market stalls on the ground floor and a café on the first floor, is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.2 km · building in Crickhowell, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Smart's Bridge

    Smart's Bridge, Llanelly, Monmouthshire, is a cast-iron bridge situated in Clydach Gorge. Constructed in 1824, it gave access to the Clydach Ironworks, the most significant industrial enterprise in the gorge.

    3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Parish Church of St Elli

    The Church of St Elli, Llanelly, Monmouthshire, South East Wales, is a parish church with its origins in the 14th century. The church underwent three major restorations, in 1867–1868, 1897 and 1910–1911.

    2.1 km · church in Llanelly, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ty-uchaf

    Ty Uchaf Farmhouse, Llanelly, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse in the west of the county dating from the early 17th century. Located 0.5 km north-west of the Church of St Elli, it is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · house in Llanelly, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cwrt-y-Gollen

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 52 km · Bristol (BRS), 58 km · Birmingham (BHX), 115 km
Stations
Gilwern Halt railway station, 3.1 km
  • Cardiff → Cwrt-y-Gollen
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Cwrt-y-Gollen
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cwrt-y-Gollen
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £13–18
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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 Cwrt-y-Gollen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.

From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    131 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    180 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    436 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    470 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    472 km

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Around it

Next door to Cwrt-y-Gollen

Cwrt-y-Gollen is 41 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Crickhowelltown and community in Powys, Wales2.3 km
  • Llangattockvillage in Powys, Wales2.5 km
  • Llanellyhamlet and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Gilwernvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Llanbedrvillage near Crickhowell, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom3.5 km