Penallt
Penallt is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated high on a hill 4 kilometres south of Monmouth.
Penallt is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated high on a hill 4 kilometres south of Monmouth. In the centre of the village, by the village green, stands the 17th-century village pub, the Bush Inn.
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Worth seeing in and around Penallt
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.
- 01Monnow Bridge
Monnow Bridge, in Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in Great Britain with its gate tower standing on the bridge. Such bridge towers were common across Europe from medieval times, but many were destroyed due to urban expansion, diminishing defensive requirements and the increasing demands of traffic and trade.
3.8 km · Bridge in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia - 02Shire Hall
The Shire Hall, Monmouth, Wales, is a prominent building on Agincourt Square in the town centre. It was built in 1724, and was formerly the centre for the assize courts and quarter sessions for Monmouthshire.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Monmouth. Courthouse · Wikipedia - 03St Thomas's Church
The Church of St Thomas the Martyr at Overmonnow, Monmouth, south east Wales, is located beside the medieval Monnow Bridge across the River Monnow. At least part of the building dates from around 1180, and it has a fine 12th-century Norman chancel arch, though the exterior was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century.
3.7 km · church in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia - 04The Beaufort Arms Hotel
The Beaufort Arms Hotel, in Agincourt Square in the town of Monmouth, south-east Wales is a former coaching inn dating from the early eighteenth century. The frontage was modified in the 1830s, possibly by the prolific early Victorian architect George Vaughan Maddox.
3.9 km · Grade II* listed building in Monmouth. Building in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia - 05Blestium
Blestium ) was a small fort and iron working centre in the Roman province of Britannia Superior, part of Roman Britain. It has been identified with the site of the later town of Monmouth in south east Wales, located adjoining the confluence of the River Monnow with the River Wye.
3.7 km · archaeological site in Monmouth, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Mary's Roman Catholic Church
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, in St Mary's Street near the centre of Monmouth, is the earliest post-Reformation Catholic public place of worship to be permitted in Wales. The church is a late Georgian Roman Catholic church with later Victorian additions by the Catholic convert architect Benjamin Bucknall.
3.9 km · church in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia - 07Hyam's Mineral Water Works
Hyam's Mineral Water Works is a nineteenth-century building at 23 Glendower Street, Monmouth, Wales. Formerly a mineral water works, it is currently used as residential apartments.
3.8 km · building in Monmouth, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 08The Rolls Hall
The Rolls Hall, Whitecross Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire is a Victorian hall, now public library, donated to the town in celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee by John Rolls, the future Lord Llangattock. It is a Grade II listed building as of 8 October 2005, and is one of 24 buildings on the Monmouth Heritage Trail.
4 km · listed public building in Monmouth · Wikipedia - 09Agincourt House
Agincourt House, No. 1 Agincourt Square, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales is a notable early seventeenth century half-timbered building.
4 km · Grade II* listed building in Monmouth. Building in Monmouth, Wales · Wikipedia - 10St James's English Methodist Church
Monmouth Methodist Church is located in Monmouth, south east Wales. It is set well back from St James Street between buildings.
3.9 km · Wesleyan chapel in Monmouth · Wikipedia
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Getting to Penallt
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Cardiff (CWL), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 99 km
- Stations
- Monmouth Mayhill railway station, 3.7 km · Monmouth Troy railway station, 3 km
- Bristol → Penallt37 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £4.5–6
- Cardiff → Penallt47 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Penallt95 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
- 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 Penallt
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 Penallt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Penallt – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Penallt
Penallt is 37 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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