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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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The Best Things to Do and Visit around Brecon


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1 - Pontsticill Reservoir

   16 km away

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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2 - Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

   17 km away

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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3 - Kayaking in Brecon Beacons National Park

   10 km away

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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4 - Brecon Beacons

   24 km away

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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5 - Brecon Beacons National Park

   24 km away

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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6 - Rock climbing in Brecon Beacons National Park

   10 km away

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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7 - Pen y Fan

   24 km away

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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8 - Llyn y Fan Fach

   25 km away

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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9 - Barranquismo in Brecon Beacons National Park

   10 km away

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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10 - Talybont Reservoir

   26 km away

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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11 - Rhigos

   28 km away

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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12 - Canyoning in Brecon Beacons National Park

   10 km away

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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13 - Elan Valley Reservoirs

   29 km away

The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales.

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14 - Pontypool

   36 km away

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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15 - Mountain bike in Brecon Beacons National Park

   10 km away

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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16 - Presteigne

   45 km away

Presteigne is a town and community in Radnorshire, Powys, Wales on the south bank of the River Lugg. Formerly the county town of the historic county of Radnorshire, the town has, in common with several other towns close to the Wales-England border, assumed the motto, "Gateway to Wales".

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17 - Newport

   49 km away

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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