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In 1957 the UK established its 10th National Park, the Brecon Beacons National Park, in its continuing efforts to rebuild the nation following two World Wars. As a visitor to the Brecon Beacons you are playing a key role in ensuring the area continues as a living landscape. By spending your time and money here local communities, which include ...
The most impressive ecclesiastical remains are both monastic: Llanthony Priory in the Vale of Ewyas and Brecon Cathedral, formerly a monastic church. 5.5.3 Many of the ‘everyday’ features which make up the Brecon Beacons landscape are likely to date from the Medieval period, including lanes, farms, fields and villages.
The Brecon Beacons (Welsh: Bannau Brycheiniog; [ˈbanai̯ brəˈχei̯njɔɡ] ⓘ [1]) are a mountain range in Wales. The range includes South Wales's highest mountain, Pen y Fan (886 metres (2,907 ft)), [ 2 ] its twin summit Corn Du (873 metres (2,864 ft)), [ 3 ] and Craig Gwaun Taf (826 metres (2,710 ft)), [ 4 ] which are the three highest peaks in the range.
BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE. L PARK2012National Park AdministrationThe Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957, under the National Parks a. d Access to the Countryside Act of 1949. It was the tenth area in W. les and England to be given such status. The two statutory purposes of the National Park Authorities, as defined in the 1995 ...
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The Brecon Beacons are sown with extraordinary stories. The woods and valleys of the region thrum with a living past. In this stunning landscape haunted castles, bottomless lakes and strange follies hold echoes of massacres, ghosts and miracles. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are said to be sleeping away the centuries in a cave ...
The framework of the Brecon Beacons landscape was created in the Ice Age by ice hollowing out glacial valleys and great bowl-shaped corries from the mountainsides, such as the one pictured above. But the detail of the landscape has been widely shaped and changed for millennia by humans, as is the case over much of the UK.
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Eight of these nationally important Historic Landscapes lie, at least partly, within the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, including the Black Mountain and Mynydd Myddfai, the Middle Wye Valley, East Fforest Fawr and Mynydd-y-Glog and the Middle Usk Valley. Further Reading: Cadw (1998) Register of. Historic Landscape of Outstanding Historic ...
