Travel Guide of Brecon Beacons in United Kingdom by Influencers and Travelers

The Brecon Beacons are a mountain range in South Wales. In a narrow sense, the name refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peaks which lie to the south of Brecon.

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Brecon

  8 km (5.2 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Brecon, archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid-Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Pontsticill Reservoir

  10 km (6.0 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Pontsticill Reservoir or Taf Fechan Reservoir is a large reservoir on the Taf Fechan lying partly in the county of Powys and partly within the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.

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Rhigos

  19 km (12.0 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Rhigos is a small village on the saddle of higher ground between the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley. It was part of the old Neath Rural district Council under Glamorgan until 1974.

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Pontypool

  34 km (21.1 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Pontypool is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales. It has a population of 28,970.

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Wales

  36 km (22.5 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km².

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Swansea

  44 km (27.5 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Swansea is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea. The city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom.

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Newport

  45 km (28.0 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Newport is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, 12 miles northeast of Cardiff.

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St Fagans

  45 km (28.2 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

St Fagans is a village and community in the west of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is home to the St Fagans National History Museum.

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Cardiff

  48 km (29.9 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Cardiff is a city and the capital of Wales. It is the United Kingdom's eleventh-largest city. As Wales' chief commercial centre, Cardiff is the base for most national cultural institutions and Welsh media, and is the seat of Senedd Cymru, the Welsh Parliament.

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Ogmore-by-Sea

  48 km (29.9 miles) away from Brecon Beacons

Ogmore-by-Sea is a seaside village in St Brides Major community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies on the western limit of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast of south Wales. The population in 2011 was 878.

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