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Llanelly

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

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  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.

    3.8 km · castle in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ogof 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
  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.

    3.8 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.

    3.9 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.

    2.8 km · house in Govilon, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mynydd 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
  7. 07
    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.

    900 m · house in Llanelly, Powys, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.9 km · building in Crickhowell, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Llanwenarth 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
  10. 10
    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.

    1.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · 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.

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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 → Llanelly
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–11
  • Bristol → Llanelly
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanelly
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    130 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    179 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    438 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

    473 km

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

Around it

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