Glynfach Castle Placename
Glynfach Castle Placename is a castle in Llanigon, Powys, Wales. Glynfach Castle Placename is situated nearby to the hamlet Capel-y-ffin, as well as near the peak Black Mountain South Top.- Type: Castle
- Description: possible castle in Powys, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Castle Placename, Glynfach”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Black Mountain South Top and Llanthony Abbey.
Black Mountain South Top
Peak
Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.
Black Mountain South Top is a top of Black Mountain in the Black Mountains range that spreads across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales.
Llanthony Abbey
Ruins
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Llanthony Abbey is a former Anglican monastic institution founded in 1869 by Joseph Leycester Lyne, in the Welsh village of Capel-y-ffin, a few miles from the medieval Llanthony Priory. Llanthony Abbey is situated 1 mile south of Glynfach Castle Placename.
Black Mountain
Peak
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Black Mountain is a hill in the Black Mountains. It is the only Marilyn to fall exactly on the Welsh–English border, and it straddles Powys and Herefordshire. Its parent peak, Waun Fach, lies to the west. Black Mountain is situated 1½ miles north of Glynfach Castle Placename.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capel-y-ffin and Craswall.
Capel-y-ffin
Hamlet
Photo: JamesWoolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Capel-y-ffin is a hamlet near the English-Welsh border, a couple of miles north of Llanthony in Powys, Wales. It lies within the Black Mountains and within the Brecon Beacons National Park. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 8 miles to the northwest.
Craswall
Village
Craswall is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It lies in the far west of the county, in the foothills of the Black Mountains, close to the border with Wales. Craswall is situated 3 miles northeast of Glynfach Castle Placename.
Llanthony
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanthony is a village in the community of Crucorney on the northern edge of Monmouthshire, South East Wales, United Kingdom. Llanthony is situated 4 miles southeast of Glynfach Castle Placename.
Glynfach Castle Placename
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Llanigon, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Glynfach Castle Placename” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Glynfach Castle Placename”
- Swedish: “Glynfach Castle Placename”
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