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Llanvair Discoed

Llanvair Discoed is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, 6 miles west of Chepstow and 10 miles east of Newport.

The place

Llanvair Discoed is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, 6 miles west of Chepstow and 10 miles east of Newport.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanvair Discoed

6 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
    Penhow Castle

    Penhow Castle, Penhow, Newport dates from the early 12th century. Extended and reconstructed in almost every century since, it has been claimed to be the oldest continuously-inhabited castle in Wales.

    2.9 km · castle in Penhow, Newport, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wentwood

    Wentwood, in Monmouthshire, South Wales, is a forested area of hills, rising to 1,014 feet above sea level. It is located to the northeast of, and partly within the boundaries of, the city of Newport.

    2.1 km · hill (309.1m) and woodland in Newport, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Thomas a Becket

    The Church of St Thomas a Becket is located in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales. In the late 12th century the land was inherited by Henry de Bohun.

    3.3 km · church in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Penhow Woodlands National Nature Reserve

    Penhow Woodlands National Nature Reserve is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest located in south east Wales near the village of Penhow, to the east of Newport. The reserve covers an area of 24 hectares.

    3.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Stephen and St Tathan (Tatheus)

    The Church of St Stephen and St Tathan, Caerwent, Monmouthshire, is a parish church with datable origins to the 13th century. It is believed to be one of the oldest Christian sites in the county, and possibly within Wales.

    2.7 km · church in Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Dewstow House

    Dewstow House, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales, is an early nineteenth century villa in a Neoclassical style. The house is notable as the site of "one of the strangest gardens in Wales." The building itself is plain; described by architectural writer John Newman as a "simple three-bay villa", it has extensive views over the Severn Estuary.

    3.9 km · grade II listed building in the 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.

Go there

Getting to Llanvair Discoed

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 28 km · Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 117 km
  • Cardiff → Llanvair Discoed
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3.5–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanvair Discoed
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–18
  • London → Llanvair Discoed
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanvair Discoed

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 Llanvair Discoed. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    139 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    148 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    465 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    499 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    501 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llanvair Discoed

Llanvair Discoed is 24 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caerwentvillage and community in Monmouthshire, Wales2.7 km
  • Shirenewtonvillage and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.2 km
  • Penhowvillage and comunity in Newport, Wales3.9 km
  • Venta Silurumtown in the Roman province of Britannia or Britain2.7 km
  • Llanvachesvillage and community in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Earlswoodvillage in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom3.9 km