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Llandogo

Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern.

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The place

Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern. It is set on a steep hillside overlooking the River Wye and across into the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. The 2011 census population was 547.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llandogo

7 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
    Tintern Abbey

    Tintern Abbey is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England. Founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, it was the first Cistercian foundation in Wales, and the second in Britain.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed ruined abbey in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Briavels Castle

    St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire. The castle is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed castle in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Church of St Nicholas, Trellech, Monmouthshire is a parish church with its origins in the 14th century. The historical and architectural evidence suggests that it was constructed largely in a single building period c.1300.

    3 km · church in Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Anne's House

    St Anne's House, Tintern, Monmouthshire, is a house of early medieval origin which includes elements of the gatehouse and chapel of Tintern Abbey. The building was reconstructed in the mid 19th century, when it was the home of John Loraine Baldwin, founder of the I Zingari Cricket Club.

    4 km · house in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cleddon Hall

    Cleddon Hall, formerly known as Ravenscroft, is a 19th-century Victorian country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales. In the later 19th century it was owned by Lord and Lady Amberley, and their youngest son, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, was born at the hall on 18 May 1872.

    1.1 km · country house in Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Oudoceus

    The Church of St Oudoceus, Llandogo, Monmouthshire is a parish church built in 1859–1861. The church is dedicated to St Oudoceus, an early Bishop of Llandaff who retired to Llandogo and was reputed to have died there in about AD 700.

    200 m · church in Llandogo, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cleddon Bog

    Cleddon Bog is a bog in the vice-county of Monmouthshire which has been notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It lies within the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Llandogo

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 39 km · Cardiff (CWL), 59 km · Birmingham (BHX), 103 km
Stations
St Briavels railway station, 1.5 km
  • Cardiff → Llandogo
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llandogo
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
  • London → Llandogo
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llandogo

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.

From Wikivoyage: Tintern, 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    151 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    493 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    502 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llandogo

Llandogo is 31 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tinternvillage in Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.9 km
  • St Briavelsvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Trellechvillage in Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales3 km
  • Brockweirvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Trellech Unitedcommunity in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales3.7 km
  • Hewelsfield and Brockweircivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England3.9 km