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Llandrindod Wells works well as a base: 10 minutes from Penybont, 16km from Pen y Garreg Reservoir, Elan Valley.
Llandrindod Wells is in Wales, United Kingdom, with about 5,300 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Penybont, about 6 km away.
Llandrindod Wells (; locally /ɬænˌdrɪndɒd-/; Welsh: Llandrindod [ɬanˈdɾindɔd] ; lit. 'trinity parish') is a town and community in Powys, Wales. It serves as the seat of Powys County Council, and is therefore the administrative centre of Powys. The town was historically in Radnorshire.
Llandrindod Wells developed as aRead more
spa town in the 19th century, with a boom in the late 20th century as a centre of local government. Before the 1860s the site of the town was common land in Llanfihangel Cefnllys parish. Llandrindod Wells is the fifth largest town in Powys. The population as of the 2021 UK census was 5,602, an increase on the previous census.
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Within an hour or so of Llandrindod Wells: Elan Valley (14 km), Pen y Garreg Reservoir, Elan Valley (16 km), Elan Valley Mountain Road (Rhayader to Aberystwyth) (19 km), Claerwen Reservoir (21 km).
The nearest famous roads are Elan Valley Mountain Road (Rhayader to Aberystwyth), Abergwesyn Pass (Devil's Staircase) and Cwmystwyth Mountain Road.
Llandrindod Wells is in Wales, United Kingdom, about 6 km from Penybont.
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landmark
Chain of Victorian dams and reservoirs built to supply Birmingham, their stone spillways thundering after rain, linked by a superb driving road through mid-Wales moorland. International Dark Sky Park with red kites overhead.
14 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
One of the Victorian Elan Valley dams, its overflow curtain of water and island tower forming the classic Elan photograph.
16 km · about 30 min drive
famous road
An empty 1930s-built mountain road over the Cambrian desert past Claerwen, with cattle grids and no villages for 20 miles.
19 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
The largest of the Elan Valley reservoirs, its 1952 dam faced in stone, with an empty mountain road running west into the Cambrians.
21 km · about 25 min drive
mountain pass
Remote 16-mile single-track mountain road from Abergwesyn to Tregaron over the Cambrian Desert, its Devil's Staircase section stacking hairpins at 20%+ gradients. One of the emptiest drives in Britain. No fuel, little signal.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
World-famous 'Town of Books' on the Welsh border, packed with second-hand bookshops and host to a renowned annual literary festival.
25 km · about 30 min drive
famous road
Wild, lonely mountain road from Rhayader to Aberystwyth over the Cambrian Mountains, passing the Elan Valley dams and old lead mines of Cwmystwyth. Often called one of Britain's remotest drives.
28 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
A remote 1970s reservoir in the Cambrian Mountains with a dramatic spillway and a single-track road looping its wooded shores - red kite country.
28 km · about 30 min drive
April to October
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![Ffotograffydd/Photographer: P B Abery (1877?-1948)
Dyddiad/Date: [192-?]
Cyfrwng/Medium: Negyddion gwydr / Glass negatives
Maint/Dimensions: 119 x 163 mm.
Cyfeiriad/Reference:PBA39/3
Rhif cofnod / Record no.: 4518226
Rhagor o wybodaeth am gasgliad P B Abery yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
More information about the P B Abery Collection at the National Library of Wales](https://prod-images.planyourroadtrips.com/img/city-images/llandrindod-wells-gb-522416--33787/4-A_gathering_of_people_at_the_Rock_Park_Pump_House__Llandrindod__3467154343_.jpg?w=1080&q=80&f=webp)