Brecon
Brecon is in many ways a typical small Welsh market town in Mid Wales. The surrounding scenery is quite stunning, as Brecon is located within the Brecon Beacons National Park, which extends to the south, east and west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Wiccasha, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 8,250 residents
- Description: market town in Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Aberhonddu” and “Brecknock”
- Postal code: LD3
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brecon Cathedral and Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh.
Brecon Cathedral
Church
Photo: David Merrett, CC BY 2.0.
Brecon Cathedral, in the town of Brecon, Powys, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales and seat of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.
Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh
Museum
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh, formerly the South Wales Borderers Museum, is located at Brecon in Wales. The museum's collection is made up of artefacts collected from a variety of sources from around the world and which display the regiment's 300-year history.
Theatr Brycheiniog
Theater building
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Theatr Brycheiniog is an arts venue in Brecon, Powys, Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanddew and Llanfrynach.
Llanddew
Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanddew is a small village and community about 2 km or 1 mile north-east of Brecon, Powys, Wales. The population as of the 2011 UK Census was 232. It is in the historic county of Brecknockshire.
Llanfrynach
Village
Photo: Helene, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanfrynach is a village and community in the county of Powys, Wales, and the historic county of Brecknockshire. The population of the community as taken at the 2011 census was 571. Llanfrynach is situated 2½ miles southeast of Brecon.
Llanspyddid
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanspyddid is a small village just west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It lies within the valley of the River Usk in the community of Glyn Tarell in the county of Powys, Wales. Llanspyddid is situated 2 miles west of Brecon.
Brecon
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.9472° or 51° 56′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.3917° or 3° 23′ 30″ westPopulation
8,250Elevation
446 feet (136 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BCNOpen location code
9C3RWJW5+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 83764957OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Brecon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريكون”
- Armenian: “Բրեկոն”
- Asturian: “Aberhonddu”
- Basque: “Aberhonddu”
- Basque: “Brecon”
- Belarusian: “Брэкан”
- Bengali: “ব্রেকন”
- Breton: “Aberhonddu”
- Bulgarian: “Брекън”
- Catalan: “Aberhonddu”
- Cebuano: “Brecon”
- Chinese: “布雷科恩”
- Chinese: “布雷肯”
- Cornish: “Aberhonddu”
- Czech: “Brecon”
- Danish: “Brecon”
- Dutch: “Brecknock”
- Dutch: “Brecon”
- Esperanto: “Brecon”
- Estonian: “Brecon”
- Finnish: “Aberhonddu”
- French: “Brecknock”
- French: “Brecon”
- Galician: “Aberhonddu”
- German: “Brecon”
- Greek: “Μπρίκον”
- Gujarati: “બ્રેકન”
- Hebrew: “ברקון”
- Indonesian: “Brecon”
- Irish: “Aberhonddu”
- Italian: “Brecon”
- Japanese: “ブレコン”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಕಾನ್”
- Korean: “브레컨”
- Korean: “브레콘”
- Latin: “Brecheniacum”
- Latvian: “Brekona”
- Lithuanian: “Brekonas”
- Macedonian: “Брекон”
- Northern Sami: “Aberhonddu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aberhonddu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brecon”
- Norwegian: “Brecon”
- Persian: “برکون”
- Polish: “Brecon”
- Portuguese: “Brecon”
- Russian: “Брекон”
- Scots: “Aberhonddu”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aberhonddu”
- Slovenian: “Brecon”
- Slovenian: “HMS Brecon”
- Spanish: “Brecon”
- Swedish: “Aberhonddu”
- Swedish: “Brecknock”
- Swedish: “Brecon”
- Tamil: “பிரேகான்”
- Telugu: “బ్రేకాన్”
- Ukrainian: “Брекон”
- Urdu: “بریکون”
- Vietnamese: “Aberhonddu”
- Vietnamese: “Brecon”
- Welsh: “Aberhonddu”
- Welsh: “Brycheiniog”
- “Aberhonddu”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Brecon”. Photo: Wiccasha, Public domain.