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Towns and Villages around the Brecon Beacons

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  1. Brecon Town Centre
    Aberhonddu | Brecon
    Brecon is a historic market town where you'll enjoy losing yourself...not only in the narrow streets and passageways lined with Georgian and Jacobean shopfronts, but in the sense of timelessness about the place.
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    Y Fenni | Abergavenny
    Abergavenny is the traditional gateway to South Wales and to the Brecon Beacons National Park. The old market town is surrounded by beautiful border countryside and home to the best food festival in the UK.
  3. Hay-on-Wye
    Y Gelli Gandryll | Hay-on-Wye
    Hay-on-Wye - in Welsh 'Y Gelli Gandryll' or just 'Y Gelli' is well known as 'the town of books' and is home to the Hay Literature Festival.
  4. New Year Walk Guided Walk - Green Events Llanwrtyd Wells
    Llanwrtyd Wells
    Llanwrtyd Wells is the smallest town in Britain. It is also one of the friendliest, having a long history of catering for the many visitors who today come to enjoy the unspoilt beauty of the surrounding Cambrian Mountains.
  5. Llanymddfri | Llandovery
    Llanymddyffri, or Llandovery, means ‘church among the waters. Surrounded by three rivers, the Towy, the Bran, and the Gwydderi. Llandovery is a market town with a population of just under 3000.
  6. Ammanford
    Ammanford, the third largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire in South West Wales, is predominately a shopping area and tourism town for many villages in the neighbouring areas.

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  1. Aberdare

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    Rohondda Cynon Taff, CF44 7LA

    tourismenquiry@rctcbc.gov.uk

    Aberdare, the 13th largest town in Wales with a population of around 32,000, is situated in the Cynon Valley 3.5 miles south-west of Merthyr Tydfil and 20 miles north-west of Cardiff.

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