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Rowlestone

Rowlestone is a village and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire in England.

Rowlestone
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The place

Rowlestone is a village and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire in England. It is a rural area with agriculture the main source of employment, and had only 87 residents in 2004, increasing to 180 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rowlestone

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
    Grosmont Castle

    Grosmont Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales. The fortification was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066, to protect the route from Wales to Hereford.

    3.1 km · castle in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ewyas Harold Castle

    Ewyas Harold Castle was a castle in the village of Ewyas Harold in Herefordshire, England.

    2.2 km · castle in Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dore Abbey

    Dore Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in the village of Abbey Dore in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, England. A large part of the original medieval building has been used since the 16th century as the parish church, with remaining parts either now ruined or no longer extant.

    3.9 km · church · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St James's Church

    The Church of St James is a former parish church at Llangua in the north-east of Monmouthshire. Although in Wales, the church is in the Church of England rather than the Church in Wales, being part of the parish of Kentchurch in the Diocese of Hereford.

    1 km · church in Llangua, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pontrilas Court

    Pontrilas Court situated at the west end of the village Pontrilas in Herefordshire is a large stone Grade II* listed mansion and is marked on the 1904 Ordnance Survey map illustration.

    1.7 km · building in Kentchurch, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's is a redundant church in the hamlet of Kenderchurch to the north of the village of Pontrilas, in Herefordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

    2.8 km · church building in Kenderchurch, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Glyndwr Including Railed Forecourt

    Glyndŵr House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a village house dating from the late 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Great Tresenny

    Great Tresenny Farmhouse, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from c.1600. Situated just to the south of the village, the farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.2 km · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Howell's House

    Howell's House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is an early 17th century house. Previously known as The Shop, it served as a village stores from the mid-19th century in the 1980s.

    3 km · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Town Farm

    Town Farm, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · house in Grosmont, Monmouthshire · 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 Rowlestone

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 98 km
Stations
Pontrilas railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Rowlestone
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Rowlestone
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rowlestone
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rowlestone

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 Rowlestone. 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

    148 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    467 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    480 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rowlestone

Rowlestone is 54 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Grosmontvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales3 km
  • Ewyas Haroldvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Kentchurchvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Llancillovillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, England1.8 km
  • Dulashamlet and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Pontrilasvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK1.7 km