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About The National Park
Situated between south and mid-Wales, in the United Kingdom, the Brecon Beacons National Park contains some of the most spectacular and distinctive upland formations in southern Britain covering an area of 1347 sq km (520 sq miles).
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Brecon Beacons National Park
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Easier Access in the Brecon Beacons
Created in close cooperation with Brecknockshire Access Group, this booklet has details of woods, nature reserves, castles, museums, visitor centres, bird observation hides and all sorts of other places to go if rough country is not what you want.
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Fishing
Salmon, brown trout, grayling, the Rivers Usk and Wye and their abundant tributaries, lakes, reservoirs and a peaceful canal all mean that the Brecon Beacons National Park is heaven for fishermen.
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Mountain Biking
The Brecon Beacons is biking heaven and whether you want a route with plenty of views and atmosphere or a gnarly single track, you just found somewhere to play.
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The Brecon Beacons - in the beginning...
The oldest rocks in the Brecon Beacons National Park date from the Ordovician Period, between 495 and 443 million years ago and can be found in the west of the Park, around the Llandovery area. The rocks of the following Silurian period, from 443 to 417 million years ago, are similar, being fine sediments such as sandstone, mudstone and siltstone, and are also found in the western area of the Park. (Interestingly, both the Ordovician and Silurian periods were named after early Welsh tribes, the Ordovices who ranged over central and north Wales, and the Silures, who inhabited South Wales.)
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The Monmouth & Brecon Canal
The canal runs for 32 miles from Newport to Brecon. The canal was built as a link from Brecon to the Severn Estuary between 1797 and 1812.
The Arches at Baileys Barn
Talybont-On-Usk, Brecon Beacons. Tel: 07875 453927
Guest accommodation in Talybont-On-Usk, Brecon Beacons National Park, that sleeps up to 6 people with stunning views of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains