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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Henrhyd Falls in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, is the tallest waterfall in southern Wales with a drop of 90 feet. It lies on National Trust land, in the county of Powys.
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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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Outdoor Adventures now only offer sit-on kayaking as opposed to traditional kayaking and canoeing. The reason for this is that over the years we have found participants tend to feel trapped and confined in traditional kayaks, and find it difficult to...
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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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The Brecon Beacons National Park is one of three national parks in Wales, and is centred on the Brecon Beacons range of hills in southern Wales.
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Open to all levels of ability. As a registered centre for mountain bike leader training, you are in the right hands to really develop your technical skills and learn new ones. You will get involved in drop-offs, technical climbing, single track, bunn...
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Pen y Fan is the highest peak in South Wales, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park. At 886 metres above sea-level, it is also the highest British peak south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia.
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Llyn y Fan Fach is a lake of approximately 10 hectares on the northern margin of the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire, South Wales and lying within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Open to all levels of ability. Gorge walking is everything your mother told you not to do in rivers. Jumping off waterfalls, abseiling down cliffs into plunge pools sliding down rocks, scrambling under rocks! and most of all getting wet and having fu...
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Talybont Reservoir is the largest stillwater reservoir in the central Brecon Beacons at 318 acres. Talybont-on-Usk is 1.5 miles downstream of the dam.
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Coity Castle in Glamorgan, Wales, is a Norman castle built by Sir Payn "the Demon" de Turberville, one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan supposed to have conquered Glamorgan under the leadership of Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester.
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Open to all levels of ability. Gorge walking is everything your mother told you not to do in rivers. Jumping off waterfalls, abseiling down cliffs into plunge pools sliding down rocks, scrambling under rocks! and most of all getting wet and having fu...
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The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a small network of canals in South Wales. For most of its currently navigable 35-mile length it runs through the Brecon Beacons National Park, and its present rural character and tranquillity belies its original purpose as an industrial corridor for coal and iron, which were brought to the canal by a network of tramways and/or railroads, many of which were built and owned by the canal company.
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Garth Hill is a hill located in between the communities of Llantwit Fardre and Pentyrch in Wales. The Garth can be seen from nearly the whole of the city of Cardiff and the Taff Valley, and on a sunny, clear day as far as Weston-super-Mare across the Bristol Channel in southwest England.
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Open to all levels of ability. Involves climbing on an attached rope up single pitch climbs. This is suitable for beginners and intermediate climbers who wish to develop their climbing technique. You will have the opportunity to learn about rope rigg...
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Brecon and Radnorshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in 1918, it elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.
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