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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Llowes

  

Llowes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Llowes

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Llowes history

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St. Meilig and St. Meilig’s Cross

The parish church is dedicated to St. Meilig, who is said to have founded a monastery in the 6th century. The church was completely rebuilt in 1853, though the base of the tower may be medieval.

Francis Kilvert

Francis Kilvert was curate of Clyro from 1865 to 1872. Llowes is mentioned several times in his published diaries. A sundial, inscribed in his memory, can be found in the parish churchyard.

You can visit Llowes places with Walkfo Llowes to hear history at Llowes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Llowes has 12 places to visit in our interactive Llowes 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 Llowes, 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 Llowes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Llowes & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 12 audio facts unique to Llowes places in an interactive Llowes map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Llowes Places Map
12 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Llowes places to visit

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

Hay Festival The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton as “The Woodstock of the mind”

Hay-on-Wye Hay-on-Wye (Welsh: Y Gelli Gandryll) is a small market town and community in Brecknockshire (Breconshire) in Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as “the town of books”, and is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The built-up area includes Cusop over the border and has a population of 2,000.

St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye St Mary’s (also St Mary the Virgin) is an Anglican parish church in Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Powys, Wales. Separated by a deep dingle, it is situated westward of the town upon an almost precipitous eminence, near to the River Wye.

Hay St Marys F.C. Hay St Marys F.C. are a football club based in Hay-on-Wye. The club plays its home games at ‘Forest Road’ Hay were runners-up in the 2011–12 Mid Wales South Football League, and were promoted to the Mid Wales League in the 2014–15 season. The 2015–16 season saw the first team finish 4th in Division 1, their highest ever league position under the guidance of former player Gareth Jenkins.

Maesyronnen Chapel Maesyronnen Chapel is one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in Wales. It is the only chapel existing from that time to be largely unchanged and still in use as a chapel. The chapel is currently administered by the United Reformed Church.

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