Tintern
Tintern is situated just inside South Wales in the beautiful Wye Valley, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, six miles north of Chepstow on the A466 road to Monmouth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 750 residents
- Description: village in Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Tyndyrn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tintern Abbey and Wild Hare Inn, Tintern.
Tintern Abbey
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tintern Abbey is a ruined medieval abbey situated adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England.
Wild Hare Inn, Tintern
Hotel
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Wild Hare Inn is a pub with rooms in Tintern located 5 miles to the north of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is situated beside the A466 road, across the road from the River Wye, on the corner of an unclassified road to Devauden and Trellech.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brockweir and Catbrook.
Brockweir
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brockweir is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish also includes the separate village of Hewelsfield.
Catbrook
Village
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catbrook is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom. The population in 2011 was 412.
Llandogo
Village
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern. Llandogo is situated 2½ miles north of Tintern.
Tintern
- Category: locality
- Location: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.698° or 51° 41′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.6809° or 2° 40′ 51″ westPopulation
750Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)Open location code
9C3VM8X9+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 308735385OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6620349Wikidata ID
Q2243491
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Tintern” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tintern”
- Breton: “Tyndyrn”
- Catalan: “Tyndyrn”
- Cebuano: “Tintern”
- Chinese: “Tintern”
- Cornish: “Tyndyrn”
- Dutch: “Tintern”
- French: “Tintern”
- German: “Tintern”
- Hebrew: “טינטרן”
- Irish: “Tyndyrn”
- Italian: “Tintern”
- Japanese: “ティンターン”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tintern”
- Persian: “تینترن”
- Russian: “Тинтерн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tyndyrn”
- Swedish: “Tintern”
- Welsh: “Tyndyrn”
- Western Frisian: “Tintern”
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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 “Tintern”. Photo: WelshDave, CC BY-SA 4.0.