Great Britain - Hay-on-Wye & Mid-Wales (Chapter)

This is the Hay-on-Wye & Mid-Wales chapter from Lonely Planet's Great Britain guidebook.

This is Wales at its most rural - a landscape of lustrous green fields, wooded river valleys and small market towns. Beyond the urban towns you'll find streets criss-crossed with cycling and walking routes, and plenty of country lanes to tootle about in.

• soak up the tranquillity of the remote Vale of Ewyas in the Black Mountains
• maps
• experience charming Hay-on-Wye, a town surrounded by nature but infatuated with books
• transport
• settle into village life in Brecon Beacons National Park in Crickhowell
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Ceredigion, Cardigan (Aberteifi), Aberystwyth, Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Devil's Bridge, Brecon Beacons National Park, Black Mountain & Fforest Fawr, Brecon (Aberhonddu) & around, Crickhowell (Crughywel) & Llangattock (Llangatwg), Abergavenny (Y Fenni), Black Mountains (Y Mynyddoedd Duon), Hay-on-Wye (Y Gelli Gandryll), Powys, Llanwrtyd Wells (Llanwrtyd), Llandrindod Wells (Llandrindod), Rhayader (Rhaeadr Gwy), Presteigne (Llanandras), Knighton (Tref-Y-Clawdd), Newton (Y Drenewydd), Montgomery and Machynlleth.