Crickhowell
Crickhowell is a small town in Powys, Wales. The town has a population of around 2,100 people. Today, Crickhowell is a popular tourist destination, and during summer the town is notably busier.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Bowring, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: George Tod, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,060 residents
- Description: town and community in Powys, Wales
- Also known as: “Crucywel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crickhowell Castle and St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell.
Crickhowell Castle
Ruins
Photo: Niki.L, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crickhowell Castle is a Grade I listed building in Crickhowell, Wales, now largely ruined. An alternative name, "Alisby's Castle", is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle, Gerald Alisby.
St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell
Church
Photo: Rick Crowley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Edmund's Church is located in Crickhowell, in southeastern Powys, Wales. Built in the early 14th century, the church is dedicated to Saint Edmund the king and martyr.
Cwrt-y-Gollen
Military installation
Photo: R3pul5e, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cwrt-y-Gollen is a British Army training base, 2 miles south-east of Crickhowell and just north of the A40 road and the River Usk, in southeastern Powys, Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llangattock and Gilwern.
Llangattock
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llangattock is a village, community and electoral ward in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, Wales. It lies in the Usk Valley just across the river from the town of Crickhowell.
Gilwern
Village
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilwern is a village within the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, Wales. Historically in Brecknockshire, it extends to either side of the River Clydach on the south side of the Usk valley. Gilwern is situated 3 miles southeast of Crickhowell.
Llanbedr
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanbedr is a small village in the community of Vale of Grwyney, in the county of Powys, Wales, 2 miles northeast of Crickhowell. It lies above the river known as the Grwyne Fechan just above its confluence with the Grwyne Fawr in the southern reaches of the Black Mountains range.
Crickhowell
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8591° or 51° 51′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.1384° or 3° 8′ 18″ westPopulation
2,060Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CHYOpen location code
9C3RVV56+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 30808290OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Crickhowell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيركهاول”
- Asturian: “Crickhowell”
- Asturian: “Crucywel”
- Basque: “Crickhowell”
- Breton: “Crucywel”
- Bulgarian: “Крикхауъл”
- Catalan: “Crickhowell”
- Cebuano: “Crickhowell”
- Chinese: “Crickhowell”
- Chinese: “克里克豪厄尔”
- Chinese: “克里克豪厄爾”
- Cornish: “Crughywel”
- Dutch: “Crickhowell”
- Esperanto: “Crickhowell”
- French: “Crickhowell”
- Galician: “Crickhowell”
- German: “Crickhowell”
- Haitian: “Crickhowell”
- Hebrew: “קריקהוול”
- Irish: “Crucywel”
- Irish: “Crughywel”
- Italian: “Crickhowell”
- Japanese: “クリックホーウェル”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Crickhowell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crickhowell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crucywel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crughywel”
- Norwegian: “Crickhowell”
- Persian: “کیرکهاول”
- Polish: “Crickhowell”
- Russian: “Крикхауэлл”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Crughywel”
- Spanish: “Crickhowell”
- Swedish: “Crickhowell”
- Ukrainian: “Крікгавел”
- Ukrainian: “Крікхауел”
- Welsh: “Crucywel”
- Welsh: “Crughywel”
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