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Grosmont

Grosmont is a village and community near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.

Grosmont
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The place

Grosmont is a village and community near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. The population taken at the 2021 census was 869. The wider community (parish) includes the villages of Llangattock Lingoed, Llangua and Llanvetherine.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grosmont

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
    Grosmont Castle

    Grosmont Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales. The fortification was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066, to protect the route from Wales to Hereford.

    100 m · castle in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kentchurch Court

    Kentchurch Court is a Grade I listed stately home 1,200 yards east from the village of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, England.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Kentchurch, Herefordshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St James's Church

    The Church of St James is a former parish church at Llangua in the north-east of Monmouthshire. Although in Wales, the church is in the Church of England rather than the Church in Wales, being part of the parish of Kentchurch in the Diocese of Hereford.

    2 km · church in Llangua, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Graig Syfyrddin

    Graig Syfyrddin or just The Graig, is a 423m high hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire, Wales. The summit knoll is known as Edmund's Tump.

    3.4 km · hill (423m) in Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pontrilas Court

    Pontrilas Court situated at the west end of the village Pontrilas in Herefordshire is a large stone Grade II* listed mansion and is marked on the 1904 Ordnance Survey map illustration.

    3.2 km · building in Kentchurch, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Glyndwr Including Railed Forecourt

    Glyndŵr House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a village house dating from the late 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    0 m · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Great Tresenny

    Great Tresenny Farmhouse, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from c.1600. Situated just to the south of the village, the farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building.

    300 m · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Howell's House

    Howell's House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is an early 17th century house. Previously known as The Shop, it served as a village stores from the mid-19th century in the 1980s.

    0 m · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lower Dyffryn House

    Lower Dyffryn House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century. Owned by a Sheriff of Monmouthshire in the early 1600s, it was rebuilt by the Cecil family in the mid-17th century as a substantial mansion to the typical Elizabethan e-plan.

    3.5 km · house in Grosmont Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Town Farm

    Town Farm, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    100 m · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Grosmont

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 60 km · Cardiff (CWL), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 97 km
Stations
Pontrilas railway station, 3.2 km
  • Bristol → Grosmont
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–9
  • Cardiff → Grosmont
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Grosmont
    94 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grosmont

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 Grosmont. 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

    149 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    174 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    470 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    483 km

If you know how people move in Grosmont – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Grosmont

Grosmont is 53 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kentchurchvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Rowlestonevillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, United Kingdom3 km
  • Llancillovillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, England3.9 km
  • Pontrilasvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Llanguavillage in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom2 km
  • Monmouth Caphamlet in Monmouthshire2.1 km