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Llanfoist

Llanfoist is a village near Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire, Wales, in the community of Llanfoist Fawr.

Llanfoist
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The place

Llanfoist is a village near Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire, Wales, in the community of Llanfoist Fawr. The saint after whom the church and village was named is uncertain. The anglicised version of the church patron is Saint Faith. The population was 1,228 in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanfoist

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
    Abergavenny Castle

    Abergavenny Castle is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen in 1175, and was attacked during the early 15th-century Glyndŵr Rising.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed building in Abergavenny. Ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Blorenge

    Blorenge, also called The Blorenge, is a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the River Usk near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. It is situated in the southeastern corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

    2.2 km · hill (561m) in Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny

    The Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny is a parish church in the centre of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. St.

    1.8 km · church in Abergavenny · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3 km · house in Govilon, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bailey Park

    Bailey Park is an urban park in the town of Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire Wales. It was founded in 1884 on land donated by Crawshay Bailey, Junior.

    2.2 km · park in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ysgyryd Fach

    Ysgyryd Fach is a hill one mile east of Abergavenny in the county of Monmouthshire, south Wales. It is often referred to in English as Little Skirrid or sometimes as Skirrid Fach.

    3 km · hill (271m) in Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Linda Vista Gardens

    Linda Vista Gardens is a small urban park in the town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire Wales. Originally the garden of a private house, the gardens came into public ownership in 1957, and were later extended as a public park.

    1.4 km · urban park in Abergavenny, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Abergavenny Bridge

    Abergavenny Bridge,, crosses the River Usk at the boundary between Abergavenny and Llanfoist. The bridge carries the A4143.

    1 km · bridge in Abergavenny, south-east Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny

    The Church of Our Lady and St Michael in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, is a Roman Catholic parish church. A Grade II* listed building, it was built between 1858 and 1860 to a design by Benjamin Bucknall.

    1.9 km · church in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Abergavenny Museum

    Abergavenny Museum is a museum situated in the grounds of Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The museum is housed in the square 'keep' on the high point of the castle motte, in the hunting lodge built for the Marquess of Abergavenny in 1819 on the site.

    1.6 km · Local Authority Museum in Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Llanfoist

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 51 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 113 km
Stations
Abergavenny railway station, 2 km
  • Cardiff → Llanfoist
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £4.5–6
  • Bristol → Llanfoist
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanfoist
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanfoist

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 Llanfoist. 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

    133 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    174 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    441 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    476 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    477 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llanfoist

Llanfoist is 38 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Abergavennytown and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK2.8 km
  • Llanfoist Fawrcommunity in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK400 m
  • Govilonvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales2.2 km
  • Llanellenvillage in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Llanwenarthvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales1.2 km
  • Mardyvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales3.5 km