Activities &
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Activities & Excursions ...

For todays tourists, business traveller or simply 'lovers of good food', the Beaufort is ideally situated. The historic county town of Monmouth, the market town of Abergavenny and the Brecon Beacons beyond, reached from the junction of the A40/449 1/2 a mile away and 1/4 of an hour takes you to junction 24 M4 or north towards the M50, M5/6.

The Beaufort is central to all the delights of the picturesque Wye Valley, the Vale of Usk and the many castles of the area. Activities abound, ballooning, canoeing, shooting, cycling, riding, and fishing, to name but a few, and in particular walking Offa's Dyke and Castle walks. 12 golf courses are in the vicinity including 'Raglan Parc' in the village and Celtic Manor, home to the 2010 'Ryder Cup', is only 15 minutes away.

All the below are easily accessible destinations from the Beaufort.

Things to do - The Arts, Heritage & Culture

Raglan Castle - five minutes walk from the Beaufort

Abergavenny Food Festival

Big Pit Mining Museum
Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains National Park
Brecon Jazz Festival
Cardiff Bay
Castle Coch
Dan Yr Ogof Showcaves
Hay on Wye Town of Books, Antiques, Literary Festival
Hereford Cathedral
The Museum of Welsh Life

National Birds of Prey Centre
Raglan Music Festival
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Tintern Abbey

Usk Rural Life Museum
Wye Valley
Vale of Usk

Things to do - Sport

Balloon trips from Raglan

Celtic Manor Golf (home of the Ryder Cup in 2010)

Cheltenham, Chepstow and Hereford Races

Gliding and Hang-Gliding

Llangorse Riding Centre

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Raglan Parc Golf Club

Salmon and trout fishing on the rivers Wye and Usk

Walking and Hill Climbing

 




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