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

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.
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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.
- 01Abergavenny 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 - 02The 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 - 03Priory 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 - 04Llanwenarth 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 - 05Bailey 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 - 06Ysgyryd 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 - 07Linda 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 - 08Abergavenny 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 - 09Church 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 - 10Abergavenny 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 → Llanfoist38 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £4.5–6
- Bristol → Llanfoist50 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanfoist107 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
- 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 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.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
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If you know how people move in Llanfoist – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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