3 Blogs for the Brecon Beacons ©
3 Blogs for the Brecon Beacons

3 Blogs for the Brecon Beacons

A Hay bookseller's diary of the town and its hills, the park's own guide to the Black Mountain churches, and the Friends' guided walks

Plenty of people write about climbing Pen y Fan. Very few write about the rest of the park from the inside, and the honest count of local blogs is three. One is a near-daily diary by a Hay-on-Wye bookseller, one is the National Park Authority's own visitor writing, and one is the walk programme of the park's conservation charity.

They lead you away from the summits to the Black Mountains' tiny medieval churches, a restored watermill at Talgarth, and the limestone reserve above Crickhowell.

Further Reading

3 Blogs for the Brecon Beacons

  1. 01 Talgarth Mill lifeinhay.blogspot.com · Eigon A near-daily diary of the Town of Books by a local bookseller who likes to look behind the scenes at what the locals are doing: castles, digs, cafés and the villages around.
  2. 02 The Black Mountains: Ancient Churches and Chapels bannaubrycheiniog.org The park authority's own route through the little churches of the Black Mountains, from the painted skeleton at Partrishow to the church at Cwmyoy whose tower leans further than Pisa's.
  3. 03 Wednesday Wander: Llangattock Quarries and Craig y Cilau Nature Reserve breconbeaconsparksociety.org The park's conservation charity publishes its guided walks, written by the volunteers who lead them. This one follows an old tramway into one of the best botanical sites in Wales.

These are other people’s blogs, out on the open web. We don’t run them and we don’t earn anything from the links — they’re here because they are good.