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New Inn

New Inn is a village and community directly south east of Pontypool, within the County Borough of Torfaen in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

New Inn
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The place

New Inn is a village and community directly south east of Pontypool, within the County Borough of Torfaen in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It had a population of 5,986 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around New Inn

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
    Diocese of Monmouth

    The Diocese of Monmouth is a diocese of the Church in Wales. Despite the name, its cathedral is located not in Monmouth but in Newport — Newport Cathedral, commonly known as St Woolos Cathedral.

    2.8 km · diocese of the Church in Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Llandegfedd Reservoir

    Llandegfedd Reservoir is a large 174 hectare water supply reservoir and is eight miles north of Newport in south Wales. The reservoir is very close to Pontypool, Cwmbran and Usk, with the boundary between Monmouthshire and Torfaen running through it along the former Sôr Brook.

    2.2 km · reservoir in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Illtyd

    The Church of St Illtyd, Mamhilad, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a parish church with its origins in the 11th century. Renovations took place in the 19th century and again in 1999–2000.

    3.8 km · church in Mamhilad, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Persondy

    Persondy, Mamhilad, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the late 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.6 km · house in Mamhilad, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Panteg cemetery

    Panteg Cemetery is one of the four principal cemeteries in the borough of Torfaen, Wales, the other three being at Blaenavon, Llwyncelyn and Cwmbran. It covers an area of approximately 20 acres.

    1.1 km · cemetery in Great Britain · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Llanddewi Court

    Llanddewi Court, Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Grade II* listed house dating from the late 16th century. It is an example of a "double-house", a building in two sections, originally without interconnections, and designed to accommodate two families.

    2.5 km · house in Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shell Grotto

    The Shell Grotto - - is a Grade II* listed late-18th-century stone built, cylindrical, slate roofed shell grotto decorated with shells and animal bones on the interior. It stands on a prominent ridge 700 ft above sea level, within the boundary of Pontypool Park, Torfaen in south Wales.

    1.6 km · Grade II* listed building in Pontypool. Grotto in Pontypool, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Pontrhydyrun Baptist Chapel

    Living Hope Church is an historic church located in Croesyceiliog in Cwmbran. Founded in the early 19th century, it has played a significant role in the religious and social life of the local community.

    2.8 km · Baptist chapel in Cwmbran · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Torfaen Museum

    Torfaen Museum is a local history museum located in Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales. It is managed by a trust.

    2.4 km · local museum in Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Hilda's Church, Griffithstown

    Griffithstown is a large suburb of Pontypool in the borough of Torfaen, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in May 1898, from Llanfrechfa Upper and Panteg, and includes Sebastopol, but, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894, became a separate civil parish.

    1.5 km · church in Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales · 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 New Inn

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 40 km · Cardiff (CWL), 40 km · Birmingham (BHX), 121 km
Stations
Pontypool and New Inn railway station, 800 m · Cwmbrân railway station, 3.8 km · Little Mill Junction railway station, 3.1 km · Lower Pontnewydd railway station, 3.5 km · Upper Pontnewydd railway station, 3.4 km
  • Cardiff → New Inn
    26 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £3–4
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → New Inn
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £13–18
  • London → New Inn
    200 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for New Inn

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 New Inn. 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

    129 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    483 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    490 km

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

Around it

Next door to New Inn

New Inn is 26 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pontypooltown in Torfaen, south-east Wales2.6 km
  • Croesyceiliogsuburb of Cwmbran and community in Torfaen, Wales, UK3.1 km
  • Glascoedvillage in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Mamhiladhamlet in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK2.9 km
  • Sebastopolvillage in Wales, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Little Millvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.8 km