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Tintern
Village in Monmouthshire, Wales

Tintern

Tintern is a village in the community of Wye Valley, on the west bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales, close to the border with England, about 5 miles (8 km) north of Chepstow.

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It is popular with tourists, in particular for the scenery and the ruined Tintern Abbey. Modern Tintern has been formed by the coalescence of two historic villages: Tintern Parva, forming the northern end of the village, and Chapel Hill, which forms the southern end. The village is designated as a Conservation Area.

Get in

Getting to Tintern

Tintern is along the A466, which runs up the valley between Chepstow and Monmouth. Chepstow is served by the M48 motorway, from Cardiff, Bristol and London, and the A48 from Gloucester. Monmouth is on the A40, which runs from West Wales, through the Brecon Beacons, and connects with the M50 for the Midlands and North of England.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Tintern Abbey

    This 12th century Cistercian abbey has been in ruins since King Henry VIII (the one with all the wives) dissolved the monasteries but it is still impressive after nearly 500 years.

  2. 02
    The Old Station

    A former station on the Wye Valley Railway from Monmouth to Chepstow, now a countryside visitor site.

  3. 03
    The Wireworks Branch

    Built to carry an industrial railway into Tintern to serve a small wireworks.

  4. 04
    Brockweir

    Cross over the old railway bridge from Wales into England and walk to the old port of Brockweir.

Do

Things to do

Wye Valley Greenway follows an old railway trackbed for five miles from Chepstow. It's on the east bank of the Wye and passes through Tidenham Tunnel, 1188 yards long - this is a bat-roost so it's only open in daylight hours April-Oct. The long-distance footpath continues north from Tintern for 10 miles to Monmouth. 1 365 Steps and the Eagle's Nest.

How locals move

Getting around Tintern the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Saffron Blaze (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.