Llanelly
Llanelly is a village, community, and parish in the county of Monmouthshire, South East Wales.

Llanelly is a village, community, and parish in the county of Monmouthshire, South East Wales. Until 1972 it existed in the historic county of Brecknockshire. The population of the community and ward at the 2011 census was 3,899. The Brecon Beacons National Park encompasses the parish and the surrounding area.
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Worth seeing in and around Llanelly
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.
- 01Crickhowell 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.
3.8 km · castle in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ogof Draenen
Ogof Draenen entrance is located at Pwll Du, north of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire. At 66 kilometres it is the longest cave system in Wales and the second longest in Great Britain behind the Three Counties System on the Cumbria/Lancashire/Yorkshire border.
3.3 km · cave in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Crickhowell 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.
3.8 km · bridge in Crickhowell, mid-Wales · Wikipedia - 04St. 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.
3.9 km · church · Wikipedia - 05Llanwenarth 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.
2.8 km · house in Govilon, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia - 06Mynydd Llangatwg
Mynydd Llangatwg or Llangattock Mountain is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park mostly in the county of Powys, south Wales but also extending into both Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent. It is named from the village of Llangatwg which sits in the valley of the River Usk to the north of it.
3.5 km · hill (528.9m) in Powys · Wikipedia - 07Clydach 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.
900 m · house in Llanelly, Powys, Wales · Wikipedia - 08Crickhowell 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.
3.9 km · building in Crickhowell, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Llanwenarth Baptist Chapel
Llanwenarth Baptist Chapel, Govilon, Monmouthshire is the oldest Baptist chapel in Wales. Founded in 1652, the present building was constructed in 1695, and was remodelled in the 18th, 19th and 21st centuries.
3.6 km · Baptist chapel in Abergavenny · Wikipedia - 10Smart'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.
1.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Llanelly
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 50 km · Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 117 km
- Stations
- Clydach railway station, 2.1 km · Gilwern Halt railway station, 1.4 km
- Cardiff → Llanelly71 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–11
- Bristol → Llanelly111 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanelly178 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Llanelly
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 Llanelly. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Llanelly
Llanelly is 39 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Crickhowelltown and community in Powys, Wales4 km
- Llangattockvillage in Powys, Wales3.5 km
- Gilwernvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Clydachvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales2.1 km
- Govilonvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales3.5 km
- Cwrt y Gollenvillage in Powys, Wales, UK2.1 km