Visit Monmouthshire Places

Welcome to Visit Monmouthshire Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Monmouthshire

  

Monmouthshire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Monmouthshire

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Monmouthshire geography / climate

Much of Monmouthshire is hilly, particularly the western area adjoining the industrial South Wales Valleys and the Black Mountains to the north. The Sugar Loaf (Welsh: Mynydd Pen-y-fâl or Y Fâl), located three kilometres (two miles) northwest of Abergavenny, is probably the best known hill in the county. The Black Mountains are part of the Brecon Beacons National Park, whilst the Wye Valley is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

You can visit Monmouthshire places with Walkfo Monmouthshire to hear history at Monmouthshire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Monmouthshire has 26 places to visit in our interactive Monmouthshire 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 Monmouthshire, 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 Monmouthshire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Monmouthshire & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 26 audio facts unique to Monmouthshire places in an interactive Monmouthshire map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Monmouthshire Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Monmouthshire historic spots	Monmouthshire tourist destinations	Monmouthshire plaques	Monmouthshire geographic features
Walkfo Monmouthshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Monmouthshire

  

Best Monmouthshire places to visit

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

Penrhos, Monmouthshire Penrhos is a village in the community of Llantilio Crossenny in Monmouthshire, south east Wales . The village is located in south-east Wales .

Llanarth Court Llanarth Court was built for the Jones family of Treowen. It is a Grade II* listed building with substantial 19th-century alterations. The court is now a private hospital.

Bryngwyn Bryngwyn is a village and rural location in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is located in the south west of Wales.

Church of St Mary and St Michael, Llanarth Church of St Mary and St Michael, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, was built circa 1790. It was the first Roman Catholic church constructed in the county since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century. Designed to look like an orangery, or barn, in order not to attract anti-Catholic hostility.

St Peter’s Church, Bryngwyn The Church of St Peter, Bryngwyn, Monmouthshire, Wales is a Grade II* listed building. It is a parish church with its origins in the 13th century.

St Teilo’s Church, Llanarth The Church of St Teilo, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales is a Grade II* listed building. Renovations took place in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Little Pitt Cottage Little Pitt Cottage is a medieval house in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1956, its listing record describing it as a “fine and exceptionally intact timber-framed house”

Chapel Farmhouse, Llanarth Chapel Farmhouse and its attached outbuilding, Llanarth, Monmouthshire is a Grade II* listed building. Greatly enlarged in the 17th century, it remains a private house.

Clytha Park Clytha Park, Clytha, Monmouthshire, is a 19th-century Neoclassical country house. The owners were the Jones family, later Herbert, of Treowen and Llanarth Court. As of April 2021 the house is occupied by tenants.

Coed-y-gelli, Llanarth Coed-y-gelli, Llanarth, Monmouthshire is a Grade II* listed building. It is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th centuries.

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