Places to explore near Brecon

Market town at the meeting of the Usk and Honddu with a cathedral, Georgian streets and a Norman castle.

0.1 km N · Powys

Former Benedictine priory church set in the only walled cathedral close in Wales, mostly 13th and 14th century.

0.5 km N

Free visitor centre on Mynydd Illtud common at Libanus, with a cafe, sculpture garden and open views to the peaks.

7.1 km W

The mountain connoisseur's route over the roof of Wales — Cardiff to Conwy by way of the Bannau, the Cambrian wilderness and Eryri.

7.5 km S · spans 9 counties

Highest summit in southern Britain, flat-topped and photogenic.

7.7 km SW

Small glacial tarn in a cwm below Corn Du, wrapped in fairy-lake folklore.

7.8 km SW

The Brecon Beacons' flat-topped second summit.

8.1 km SW

The high, flat-topped sandstone mountains at the heart of Bannau Brycheiniog, with Pen y Fan the highest peak in south Wales

8.7 km S

Large reservoir in a wooded valley with a lakeside path and good birdwatching, stocked with brown trout.

11 km SE

A prehistoric standing stone in Powys.

15.2 km SW

Reservoir on the southern edge of the Beacons with a circular cycle path and the Brecon Mountain Railway along its shore.

15.9 km S

Narrow-gauge steam railway running from Pant into the Beacons alongside the Pontsticill and Taf Fechan reservoirs.

18.7 km S

Flat-topped hill above Crickhowell crowned by an Iron Age hillfort, giving the town its Welsh name.

19.6 km SE

Cave with the largest entrance in Wales, formed where the Afon Mellte vanishes underground near Ystradfellte.

19.9 km SW

Usk-valley town below Table Mountain, with a prize-winning high street of independent shops and an odd-arched 1706 bridge

19.9 km SE · Powys

The highest road pass in Wales, threading between Hay Bluff and Twmpa above the Vale of Ewyas.

20.1 km E

Steep scarp on the northern edge of the Black Mountains with wide views over the Wye valley.

21.1 km NE

Stepped waterfall on the Afon Mellte, first of the falls on the Four Waterfalls walk.

21.3 km SW

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

21.5 km NE · spans 8 counties

The 'fall of snow' on the Afon Hepste, star of Waterfall Country — the old sheep-drovers' ledge still leads dry-shod behind the curtain.

21.8 km SW

Remote western escarpment of the Beacons.

22.1 km E

The higher of the two glacial waters under the Carmarthen Fans, beneath the eastern scarp of Fan Brycheiniog.

22.4 km W

Remote reservoir among conifer plantations west of Trecastle, with a lakeside walking and cycling loop.

22.5 km W

Book town on the Wye at the edge of the Black Mountains, with more than twenty bookshops and a famous festival.

23.1 km NE · Powys

Steep wooded gorge cut by the River Clydach between Brynmawr and Abergavenny, with waterfalls, cascades and ancient beechwoods.

23.8 km SE

Show cave complex in the upper Tawe valley with lit chambers, stalactites and an underground river.

24.1 km SW

Over 40 acres of Victorian parkland, meadows and riverside woodland in the upper Tawe valley, once Adelina Patti's estate.

24.1 km SW

A steep escarpment top above Llyn y Fan Fach, on the wild western edge of the Brecon Beacons

24.2 km W

Fan-shaped fall on the Afon Pyrddin near Pontneddfechan, signposted as Lady Falls.

24.3 km SW

Remote hamlet in the Vale of Ewyas below the Black Mountains, set beside the ruins of an Augustinian priory.

24.3 km E · Monmouthshire

Towering limestone crag at Pontneddfechan, a landmark and climbing site at the edge of Waterfall Country.

24.5 km SW

Conical landmark hill above Abergavenny.

24.7 km E

The mountain canal of the Bannau Brycheiniog, contouring high above the Usk from Brecon toward Pontypool.

0.3 km SE · Powys, Monmouthshire & Torfaen

An Iron Age hillfort in Powys.

2.4 km NW

Small cruciform church near Brecon associated with Giraldus Cambrensis, with a holy well nearby.

2.4 km NE

Cardiff Bay to Brecon on old tramways and towpaths up the Taff — shared with bikes, with Castell Coch on the way out of town.

3.7 km E · spans 4 counties

Dining pub in the village of Llanfrynach, south-east of Brecon.

4.1 km SE

Caerleon's Roman fortress to Brecon, following the Usk by riverside path and canal towpath under an otter's-head waymark.

5.9 km SE · Powys, Monmouthshire & Newport

Award-winning dining inn between Brecon and Hay-on-Wye, a repeat Good Pub Guide Welsh dining-pub winner.

6.6 km NE