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Ganarew

Ganarew is a village and small civil parish in south Herefordshire, England near the River Wye and the border with Wales.

Ganarew
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The place

Ganarew is a village and small civil parish in south Herefordshire, England near the River Wye and the border with Wales. The village is located 0.62 miles (1.00 km) southwest of the village of Whitchurch on the main A40 road, and lies within the electoral ward of Kerne Bridge. The village is about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Monmouth and 8 miles (13 km) from Ross-on-Wye. It contains the Church of St Swithin and Ganarew Manor.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ganarew

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
    Monmouth Priory

    Monmouth Priory, in Priory Street, Monmouth, Wales, is a building that incorporates the remains of the monastic buildings attached to St Mary's Priory Church. The priory was a Benedictine foundation of 1075, and parts of the mediaeval buildings remain.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed building in Monmouth. Building in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Priory Church

    St Mary's Priory Church, in Whitecross Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, is an Anglican church founded as a Benedictine priory in 1075. The current church dates mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.

    3.9 km · church in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wye Valley

    The Wye Valley is a valley in Wales and England. The River Wye is the fourth-longest river in the United Kingdom.

    2.2 km · National Landscape and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales and England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Roman Catholic Church

    St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, in St Mary's Street near the centre of Monmouth, is the earliest post-Reformation Catholic public place of worship to be permitted in Wales. The church is a late Georgian Roman Catholic church with later Victorian additions by the Catholic convert architect Benjamin Bucknall.

    4 km · church in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Savoy Theatre, Monmouth

    The Savoy Theatre, Church Street, Monmouth is a theatre and cinema, reputedly the oldest working theatre site in Wales. It has a capacity for 360 people and is run by a charitable trust.

    4 km · theatre and cinema in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St James's English Methodist Church

    Monmouth Methodist Church is located in Monmouth, south east Wales. It is set well back from St James Street between buildings.

    3.9 km · Wesleyan chapel in Monmouth · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Rolls Hall

    The Rolls Hall, Whitecross Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire is a Victorian hall, now public library, donated to the town in celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee by John Rolls, the future Lord Llangattock. It is a Grade II listed building as of 8 October 2005, and is one of 24 buildings on the Monmouth Heritage Trail.

    3.8 km · listed public building in Monmouth · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Monmouth County Gaol

    The County Gaol, situated in North Parade, Monmouth, Wales, was Monmouthshire's main prison when it was opened in 1790. It served as the county jail of Monmouthshire and criminals or those who fell foul of the authorities were hanged here until the 1850s and some 3,000 people viewed the last hanging.

    3.6 km · building in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Dispensary

    The Dispensary is a Georgian town house which is fairly typical of many town-centre houses in Monmouth, Wales, dating from the mid 18th century, but with early 19th-century additions. It stands in St James Square, opposite the Catalpa tree.

    3.8 km · house in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Monmouth Baptist Church

    Monmouth Baptist Church is located in Monk Street, Monmouth, south east Wales. The church building was opened in 1907, although the Baptist congregation had been formed in 1818.

    3.8 km · Grade II listed building in Monmouth. Church · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Ganarew

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 93 km
Stations
Monmouth Mayhill railway station, 3.9 km
  • Bristol → Ganarew
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
  • Cardiff → Ganarew
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ganarew
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ganarew

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 Ganarew. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    156 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    160 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    482 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    498 km

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Around it

Next door to Ganarew

Ganarew is 44 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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