Brecon stands where the Honddu runs into the Usk, a compact Georgian town of narrow streets and old shopfronts. The cathedral looks down from the site of a Norman priory, and the mountains fill the whole southern view.
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Brecon, Brecon Beacons
Touring and camping park on the Hay Road at Brecon with its own heated outdoor swimming pool and a play park. Open March to October.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
Farm park at Llyswen near Brecon with electric and water on every pitch, an award-winning heated washblock and safari tents.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A 5-star boutique bed and breakfast in the heart of Brecon, with six individually styled en-suite rooms — a luxurious base for the Brecon Beacons National…
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
An iconic hotel on the site of a Norman castle in Brecon, blending historic charm with modern comfort and panoramic views.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A Georgian townhouse on Watton in Brecon with nine en-suite rooms, a wood burner and an honesty bar of local beers.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A charming 4-star country inn in the village of Felinfach near Brecon — a former coaching inn dating to the early 19th century.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A 24-room inn on Brecon's town square, in one of the oldest buildings in the town, with food seven days a week.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
AA four-star family-run park at Bronllys, eight miles from Brecon, with its own shop, hairdresser and heated washblocks. Dogs free.
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A comfortable bed-and-breakfast guest house in a characterful townhouse in the centre of Brecon, at the gateway to the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park, with…
Brecon, Brecon Beacons
A charming family-run guest house in a historic farmhouse near Brecon, with nine en-suite rooms full of character — a friendly base for the Brecon Beacons.
It is the main gate to the central peaks. Corn Du and Cribyn stand above the town, with the hollow of Cwm Llwch beneath them holding a small dark lake.
The cathedral is a few minutes up from the bridge and open to walk into. Below it the town runs down to the basin where the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal starts.
For one weekend every August the whole town turns over to music. Jazz runs in Theatr Brycheiniog, the Guildhall, the Muse and half the pubs in Brecon, and a good deal of it is free.
It started in a pub. In 1984 Jed Williams, who ran the Four Bars Inn in Brecon, put on three days of music in the streets and pubs. George Melly and Humphrey Lyttelton played that first year.
It was laid on for the people who lived here rather than for visitors, and it has kept that shape. In 2026 it runs from 6 to 9 August, and the town is full for it.
The rest of the year is quieter than that sounds. There is still a market in the hall, Pen y Fan is twenty minutes away down the A470, and the canal starts a few streets from the middle of town.
There is a soldier's history here as well. The barracks were the depot of the South Wales Borderers, and the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh there tells the story of Rorke's Drift.
That was a mission station in South Africa where about a hundred and fifty men held off several thousand Zulu warriors in 1879. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded for that one night, the most ever given for a single action.
Five of those Victoria Crosses belong to the Royal Welsh museum at the barracks, though what is on the wall are copies, because the originals are too valuable to display. That collection is worth an hour if the weather has turned.
The other wet-day answer is Y Gaer, which puts a museum, an art gallery and the town library into the old Shire Hall. The courtroom upstairs forms part of the visit. It opens Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The national park starts at the edge of the houses, and the canal begins in the basin at the bottom of the town. Crickhowell is fourteen miles down the Usk and Abergavenny six miles beyond it. The park itself was renamed Bannau Brycheiniog in 2023, which is what the road signs say now. See the rest of the Brecon Beacons.
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