Activities For Your Holiday

• A boating lake, climbing centre and outside zip wire course at Llangorse
• Numerous excellent mountain bike routes including the Cwmcarn Trail
• Several horse riding and pony trekking centres, catering for all abilities
• Hang gliding, paragliding and gliding
• Tennis courts at Crickhowell
• Golf courses at nearby Llangattock, Abergavenny and Brecon
• Canoeing and fishing on the canal and the Usk and Wye rivers
• Numerous walking routes (the National Park has over 1,000 miles of public footpaths)
• The beautiful Gower peninsula with fabulous beaches
• The Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons including Pen-y-fan, highest mountain in South Wales
• Some of the best caving in the UK.

Sites To See

• The Brecon Mountain Railway at Pontsticill
• Several impressive castles at Raglan, Skenfrith, Grosmont and Chepstow and wonderful abbeys at Llanthony, Abbey Dore and Tintern
• A wealth of industrial heritage in the Welsh valleys including the Ironworks and Big Pit National Coal Museum (voted UK Museum of the Year in 2005) at the Blaenavon UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Attractive market towns with cafés and shops to explore, including Usk, Brecon (home to a cathedral and the famous jazz festival), Abergavenny, Hereford, Monmouth and Hay-on-Wye, famous for its Literary Festival and the world’s second-hand bookshop capital
• Cardiff, capital city of Wales
• RSPB Red Kite feeding centre at Rhayader. 

About Crickhowell

Nestling in the Beautiful Usk Valley and lying to the South of the Eastern Range of the Brecon Beacons and under the Black Mountains, the town of Crickhowell and its surrounding villages have attractions that are enticements for all visitors to this wonderful corner of Wales.

Our thriving Market Town offers an interesting variety of Shops and Businesses which cater for the community and visitors to Crickhowell. The Town and surrounding villages offer a wide and varied choice of places to eat and drink.