Gaer
Gaer is the name of a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south Wales. It lies at the southern end of the long ridge between the valley of the Grwyne Fawr and the Vale of Ewyas, one mile north of Bryn Arw and three miles northeast of Sugarloaf.Photo: Jasperfforde, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tabernacle Baptist Chapel and St Martin’s Church.
Tabernacle Baptist Chapel
Church
Photo: Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Ffwthog, near Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire is a Baptist chapel, with attached manse, dating from 1837. Largely unaltered externally and internally, the chapel is a Grade II* listed building.
St Martin’s Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Martin, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, Wales, was begun in the 12th century, although most of the current structure dates from the 13th century.
Bryn Arw
Peak
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bryn Arw is a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south Wales. It lies 4 km north of the town of Abergavenny and 1.5 miles west of the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cwmyoy and Llanvihangel Crucorney.
Cwmyoy
Hamlet
Photo: John Thorn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cwmyoy is an extensive rural parish in Monmouthshire, Wales. The standard Welsh name is Cwm Iau or Cwm-iau. In the Gwentian dialect of Welsh that was spoken here until the late 1800s, the name was pronounced as Cwm Iou.
Llanvihangel Crucorney
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanvihangel Crucorney is a small village in the community of Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located 5 miles north of Abergavenny and 18 miles southwest of Hereford, England on the A465 road. Llanvihangel Crucorney is situated 2 miles southeast of Gaer.
Pandy
Village
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
Pandy is a hamlet in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom. Pandy is situated 2½ miles east of Gaer.
Gaer
- Type: Locality
- Description: hill in the Black Mountains of Wales
- Category: geographical feature
- Location: Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.89262° or 51° 53′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.0276° or 3° 1′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C3RVXVC+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 8916264241OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q5516654
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In Other Languages
“Gaer” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Twyn-y-Gaer”
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