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.
Talgarth has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Sgwd Yr Eira, Dan Yr Ogof Waterfalls, Sgwd Isaf Clun Gwyn, and Sgwd Y Pannwr.
The area around Talgarth features a number of interesting mountains including Corn Du, and Pen y Fan.
The area close to Talgarth boasts some of the best caves including Dan Yr Ogof.
The area around Talgarth's best ancient sites can be found at Maen Llia Standing Stone.
Talgarth History
There are some historic monuments around Talgarth:
- Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib, round cairn to SW of
- Twmpan Castle Mound
- Crickadarn Camp
- Clyro Castle
- Cefn Barn Ringwork
- Neuadd-Glan-Gwy Standing Stone
- Crannog in Llangorse Lake
- Llanthomas Castle Mound
- House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn
- Round Barrow 400m S of Church
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib round cairn
- Bronllys Castle
- Inscribed Stone in Church
- Coed y Gaer
- Great House Mound & Bailey Castle
- Little Lodge Long Barrow
- Pen Trumau Round Cairns
- Bronllys moated site
- Aberllynfi chapel
- Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual Complex
- Llanfilo Camp
- Clyro Court chambered tomb
- Garden Earthworks at Old Gwernyfed
- Bwlch Round Cairn
- Kidney-shaped enclosure 1km SE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm Banw
- Wern Frank Wood round cairn
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn III
- Western Camp
- Castell Dinas
- Ty-Isaf Long Barrow
- Cefn Moel Round Houses
- Glasbury Old Church
- Tredustan Castle Mound
- Maesgwyn round barrow
- Mynydd Troed Long Barrow
- Bipartite enclosure 1km SSE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm Banw
- Enclosure West of Sorgwm
- Cefn Moel Round Barrows
- Bailey Bedw Ring Cairn
- Llyswen Camp
- Twyn y Garth Round Barrows
- Pipton Long Barrow
- Cross-Slab in Church
- Mynydd Llangorse, cairn on S end of
- Pen Gloch-y-pibwr, platform cairn on S end of
- Castle Kinsey
- Mynydd Llangorse Cairn
- Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform
- Begwns round cairn
- Pentre Jack Settlement
- Porthamel Tower
- Round Barrow 90m NE of Pipton Farm
- Coed y Polyn round barrow
- Enclosure W of Allt yr Esgair
- Talgarth Camp
- Ty Illtyd Long Barrow
- Pen Tir, cairn on S end of
- Castle Tump
- Castell Blaenllynfi
- Moated Site 800m NE of Felinfach
- Llanfilo Moated Site
- Ffynnon Las Round Cairn I
- Pen Allt-mawr platform cairn
- Blaen y Cwm Uchaf Cairn Cemetery
- Standing Stone E of Llangoed Wood
- Gileston Standing Stone
- Mynydd Bychan platform cairn
- Pen y Wyrlod Long Cairn
- Enclosure on Cockit Hill
- Allt yr Esgair Camp
- Cross Slab in Llowes Church
- Maes Clythan Wood cairn
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn and Ritual Platform
- Boughrood Castle
- Trefecca Castle Mound
- Pen Gloch-y-pibwr, cairn on W side of
- The Peterstone
- Medieval Building in Llanfilo Village
- Trefecca-Fawr Moated Site
- Ffostyll Long Barrows
- Gwernyfed Park Camp
- Cwm Fforest Long Barrow
- Castle Mound 400m N of Cefnige
- Mynydd Troed, round cairn on S end of
- Moated Site in Llanfilo Village
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.
