Talgarth
Talgarth is a Village in the county of Powys.
Talgarth postcode: LD3 0AE
There are great places to visit near Talgarth including some great waterfalls, mountains, caves and ancient sites.
Sgwd Yr Eira, Dan Yr Ogof Waterfalls, Sgwd Isaf Clun Gwyn, and Sgwd Y Pannwr are some of Talgarth best waterfalls to visit near Talgarth.
Talgarth's best nearby mountains can be found at Corn Du, and Pen y Fan.
The area around Talgarth's best caves can be found at Dan Yr Ogof.
The area close to Talgarth boasts some of the best ancient sites including Maen Llia Standing Stone.
Talgarth History
There are some historic monuments around Talgarth:
- Round Barrow 90m NE of Pipton Farm
- Pen Gloch-y-pibwr, cairn on W side of
- Crickadarn Camp
- Pen Gloch-y-pibwr, platform cairn on S end of
- Inscribed Stone in Church
- Little Lodge Long Barrow
- Pen Trumau Round Cairns
- Ty-Isaf Long Barrow
- Great House Mound & Bailey Castle
- Coed y Gaer
- Gwernyfed Park Camp
- The Peterstone
- Mynydd Bychan platform cairn
- Moated Site in Llanfilo Village
- Maes Clythan Wood cairn
- Wern Frank Wood round cairn
- Llanfilo Camp
- Glasbury Old Church
- Bronllys moated site
- Enclosure on Cockit Hill
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib round cairn
- Cwm Fforest Long Barrow
- Enclosure W of Allt yr Esgair
- Cefn Moel Round Houses
- Mynydd Troed, round cairn on S end of
- Maesgwyn round barrow
- Cefn Moel Round Barrows
- Western Camp
- Kidney-shaped enclosure 1km SE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm Banw
- Begwns round cairn
- Llanfilo Moated Site
- Twmpan Castle Mound
- Mynydd Llangorse, cairn on S end of
- Blaen y Cwm Uchaf Cairn Cemetery
- Neuadd-Glan-Gwy Standing Stone
- Porthamel Tower
- Cross-Slab in Church
- Mynydd Llangorse Cairn
- Crannog in Llangorse Lake
- Aberllynfi chapel
- Ty Illtyd Long Barrow
- Round Barrow 400m S of Church
- Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood
- Ffynnon Las Round Cairn I
- Gileston Standing Stone
- Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform
- Cefn Barn Ringwork
- Bronllys Castle
- Standing Stone E of Llangoed Wood
- Coed y Polyn round barrow
- Clyro Court chambered tomb
- Trefecca-Fawr Moated Site
- Pen y Wyrlod Long Cairn
- Pen Tir, cairn on S end of
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn III
- Boughrood Castle
- Enclosure West of Sorgwm
- Castell Blaenllynfi
- House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn and Ritual Platform
- Clyro Castle
- Tredustan Castle Mound
- Castle Tump
- Bwlch Round Cairn
- Garden Earthworks at Old Gwernyfed
- Medieval Building in Llanfilo Village
- Pentre Jack Settlement
- Trefecca Castle Mound
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib, round cairn to SW of
- Castle Kinsey
- Bailey Bedw Ring Cairn
- Moated Site 800m NE of Felinfach
- Llyswen Camp
- Allt yr Esgair Camp
- Cross Slab in Llowes Church
- Pipton Long Barrow
- Ffostyll Long Barrows
- Talgarth Camp
- Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual Complex
- Pen Allt-mawr platform cairn
- Castle Mound 400m N of Cefnige
- Bipartite enclosure 1km SSE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm Banw
- Twyn y Garth Round Barrows
- Mynydd Troed Long Barrow
- Llanthomas Castle Mound
- Castell Dinas
Places to see near Talgarth
History of Talgarth
A Roman fort near Cwmdu (Pen-y-Gaer) is also of significance to Talgarth as there was a Roman route from Abergavenny via Pen-y-Gaer up the Rhiangoll valley to Talgarth, some experts say to Castell Collen near Llandrindod. Much evidence has been lost in the intervening 2000 years, but there is growing circumstantial evidence to suggest there is a missing Roman fort in the Talgarth area, at the crossroads of two or possibly three Roman routes, the Roman road from Pen-y-gaer, from Clyro to Y Gaer near Brecon and even the river Llynfi itself, although the latter may not be acceptable to some archaeologists. Nevertheless, water routes, even small ones are not unknown to have been used for man-hauling equipment in small, narrow flat bottom boats.
