Ancre Hill Estates

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

0.9 km SW · spans 8 counties

Monmouth's parish church on the site of a medieval priory, rebuilt in the Georgian and Victorian periods beneath a tall spire.

1.5 km SE

Market town at the meeting of the Monnow and Wye, with a fortified 13th-century bridge gate and a broad Georgian high street.

1.6 km SE · Monmouthshire

Britain's canoeing river, running lock-free down its wooded border gorge from Hay past Ross and Symonds Yat to the tide at Bigsweir.

1.8 km SE · spans 4 counties

A wooded river gorge winding along the Wales–England border, past Tintern Abbey down to Chepstow.

2 km E

Twin-mouthed cave in the wooded Wye gorge near Symonds Yat, holding evidence of Ice Age human and animal life.

6.1 km NE