Welcome to Visit Crickhowell Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Crickhowell
Visit 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.
Visiting Crickhowell Walkfo Preview 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.
Why visit Crickhowell with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You 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.
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:
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visit Crickhowell plaques
0 plaques hereCrickhowell 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.
Experience Crickhowell audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Crickhowell allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Crickhowell’s 22 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Crickhowell freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Crickhowell Map App
Our visit Crickhowell map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Crickhowell & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Crickhowell tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Crickhowell centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Crickhowell area at LONG:-3.1372, LAT:51.8597.
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Things to do & visit in Crickhowell / surrounding areas
● Llanelly ● St Elli’s Church, Llanelly ● Ty-uchaf Farmhouse, Llanelly ● Grwyne Fawr ● Crickhowell Bridge ● St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell ● Crickhowell Castle ● Bear Hotel, Crickhowell ● Crickhowell ● Llangattock (Crickhowell) ● Cwrt y Gollen ● Glanusk Park ● Green Man Festival ● Llangenny ● Ogof Agen Allwedd ● Ogof y Daren Cilau ● Crug Hywel ● Rhiangoll ● Llanbedr, Crickhowell ● Glangrwyney ● Pen Cerrig-calch ● Craig y Cilau
Getting to / around Crickhowell – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Crickhowell using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Crickhowell places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Local Crickhowell historians & Crickhowell tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Crickhowell? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Crickhowell’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Crickhowell place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Crickhowell Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Crickhowell destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Crickhowell’ web pages (for example: www.visitCrickhowell.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336