Crickhowell is named after Crug Hywel, “Hywel’s mound”, the Iron Age hillfort on flat-topped Table Mountain above the town, on the southern edge of the Black Mountains. Down on the Usk, the stone bridge, rebuilt in 1706 and altered in the 1820s, has twelve arches on the upstream side and thirteen downstream. The high street is lined with independent shops, and in 2018 it won the top prize in the Great British High Street Awards, partly for a campaign that got more than 100 local businesses promoting each other. In the town are the ruins of Crickhowell Castle and the 14th-century St Edmund’s Church.
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