Things To Do & Places To See

• Numerous walks in the area.
  If required a local guide can be arranged, please ask when booking.
  
  
• Leisure Centres & Swimming Pools
  Blaenau Gwent’s Sports centres
  fitness studios, health suites, swimming pools, hydro slides, soft play sessions, squash courts, indoor and outdoor sports facilities.
  
  • Ebbw Vale 2 Minutes on foot Tel: 01495 303766
  • Abertillery 15 Minutes by car Tel: 01495 212206
  • Tredegar 10 Minutes by car Tel: 01495 723554
  • Nantyglo 10 Minutes by car Tel: 01495 310785
    

• Local Sport
  
  • Ebbw Vale Cricket Club (3 mins on foot)
  Eugene Cross Park
  Ebbw Vale
  Blaenau Gwent,
  UK. NP23 5AATel: 01495 302104
  Website: http://www.ebbwvalecricket.co.uk
  
  • Ebbw Vale Rugby Club (2 mins on foot)
  Eugene Cross Park
  Ebbw Vale
  Blaenau Gwent
  UK. NP23 5AZ
  Tel: 01495 302995
  Website: http://www.ebbwvalerfc.co.uk
  
  
• Local Golf Clubs
  
  • West Monmouthshire Golf Club (10 Minutes by car)
  Mountain/Heathland 18 holes 6013 yards Par 71
  Golf Road
  Winchestown
  Nantyglo
  Brynmawr NP3 4QT
  Tel: 01495 310233
  website: West Monmouthshire Golf Club
  
  • Tredegar and Rhymney Golf Club (20 Minutes by car)
  Mountain Course 18 holes 5316 yards Par 67
  Cwmtysswg
  Rhymney
  Tredegar NP2 3BQ
  Tel: 01685 840743
  website: Tredegar and Rhymney Golf Club
  
  
• Horse Riding
  
  • Llangenny Riding Centre (20 Minutes by car)
  Llwynon Farm
  Llangattock
  Crickhowell
  Powys NP8 1PW
  Tel: 01873 810329
  website: Llangenny Riding Centre
  
  • Golden Castle Riding and Livery Stables (20 Minutes by car)
  Llangattock
  Crickhowell
  Powys NP8 1PY
  Tel: 07890 236928
  website: Golden Castle Riding Stables

• Parks, Monuments, Castles etc.
  
  • Brecon Beacons National Park (35 Minutes by car)
  Visitor Centre
  Y Ganolfan Fynydd
  Libanus
  Brecon
  Powys LD3 8ER
  Tel: 01874 623366
  website: http://www.breconbeacons.org
  
  • Bryn Bach Country Park (10 Minutes by car)
  Activities include canoeing, climbing, hill walking, caving and angling.
  Countryside Centre
  Merthyr Road
  Tredegar
  Blaenau Gwent NP22 3AY
  Tel: 01495 711816
  website: http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk
  
  • Brecon Mountain Railway (20 Minutes by car)
  Pant Station
  Merthyr Tydfil CF48 2UP
  Tel: 01685 722988
  website: http://www.breconmountainrailway.co.uk
  
  • Big Pit National Mining Museum of Wales (15 Minutes by car)
  Blaenafon
  Torfaen NP4 9XP
  Tel: 01495 790311
  website: Big Pit
  
  • Raglan Castle (20 Minutes by car)
  One of the finest late medieval fortress's in Britain it survived one of the longest sieges of the Civil War.
  Raglan
  Monmouthshire NP15 2BT
  Tel: 01291 690228
  website: http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html
  
  • Caerphilly Castle (25 Minutes by car)
  Caerphilly Castle one of the largest Castles in the United Kingdom, built in 1268-1271 by the Anglo-Norman lord, Gilbert de Clare.
  Caerphilly Visitor Centre
  Twyn Square
  Caerphilly CF83 1JL
  Tel: 029 2088 0011
  website: Caerphilly Castle