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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Crickhowell


Visit Crickhowell PlacesVisit Crickhowell places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Crickhowell places to visit. A unique way to experience Crickhowell’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Crickhowell as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Crickhowell is a town and community in southeastern Powys, Wales, near Abergavenny. It lies in the historic county of Brecknockshire. When you visit Crickhowell, Walkfo brings Crickhowell places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Crickhowell Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Crickhowell


Visit Crickhowell – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 22 audio plaques & Crickhowell places for you to explore in the Crickhowell area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Crickhowell places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Crickhowell etymology

The name Crickhowell is derived from that of a nearby Iron Age hill fort called Crug Hywel. The Welsh language name was anglicised by map-makers and local English-speaking people.

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Visit Crickhowell PlacesYou can visit Crickhowell places with Walkfo Crickhowell to hear history at Crickhowell’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Crickhowell has 22 places to visit in our interactive Crickhowell map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Crickhowell, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Crickhowell places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Crickhowell & the surrounding areas.

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22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo Crickhowell tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Crickhowell

  

Best Crickhowell places to visit


Crickhowell has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Crickhowell’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Crickhowell’s information audio spots:

Crickhowell photo St Elli’s Church, Llanelly
The Church of St Elli, Llanelly, Monmouthshire, is a parish church with its origins in the 14th century. It underwent three major restorations, in 1867–1868, 1897 and 1910–1911. The church is dedicated to the 6th-century Saint Elli.
Crickhowell photo Ty-uchaf Farmhouse, Llanelly
Ty Uchaf Farmhouse, Llanelly, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. Located 0.5km north-west of the Church of St Elli, it is a Grade II* listed building.
Crickhowell photo St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell
St Edmund’s Church is located in Crickhowell, southeastern Powys, Wales. Built in the early 14th century, the church is dedicated to Saint Edmund the king and martyr. It has been known by this name from its establishment in 1303.
Crickhowell photo Crickhowell Castle
An alternative name, “Alisby’s Castle”, is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle, Gerald Alisby. Crickhowell Castle is a Grade I listed building.
Crickhowell photo Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
The Bear Hotel, formerly the White Bear, stands on Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. A coaching inn from the mid 18th century, the building has older origins from the 17th and 15th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Crickhowell photo Llangattock (Crickhowell)
Llangattock (Welsh: Llangatwg) 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. The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal passes through the village en route between Brecon and Pontypool.
Crickhowell photo Cwrt y Gollen
Cwrt-y-Gollen is a British Army training base in southeastern Powys, Wales. It is 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Crickhowell and just north of the A40 road and the River Usk.
Crickhowell photo Ogof y Daren Cilau
Ogof y Daren Cilau is one of several cave systems in the Llangattock escarpment near Crickhowell in south Powys, Wales. The cave was discovered in 1957 and one of Wales’ longest cave systems.
Crickhowell photo Crug Hywel
Crug Hywel is a flat-topped mountain at the southern edge of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales. It rises to 451 m above sea level, from the southern flank of Pen Cerrig-calch (701 m) The name is from Welsh crug, a hillock, and hywel, conspicuous.
Crickhowell photo Pen Cerrig-calch
Pen Cerrig-calch is a subsidiary summit of Waun Fach in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys, Wales. Its summit, at a height of 701m (2,300 ft), is marked by a trig point.

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Crickhowell has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Crickhowell plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Crickhowell using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Crickhowell plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.