From the village green, perched 600 ft above sea level, on a fine day you can see north for up to 50 miles or so into Shropshire, whilst the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Worcestershire and the Brecon Beacons are also visible.
Libanus, Powys, a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in the county of Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Ironworks were set up in the South Wales Valleys, running south from the Brecon Beacons particularly around the new town of Merthyr Tydfil, with iron production later spreading westwards to the hinterlands of Neath and Swansea where anthracite coal was already being mined.
Hughes's childhood memories continue to have an impact upon his artwork, with numerous references to Welsh landscape and culture, especially that of the south Wales valleys and Dowlais Top and Caeharris in particular: As a child he would regularly explore the local rugged landscape outside his back-door, just below the Brecon Beacons.
This would locate the main source in the limestone of the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons.
It is endemic to the United Kingdom, where it is found in the wild at two sites in the Brecon Beacons, in Wales.
In June 2010, Alice Clarke, the daughter of SAS soldier Major Mike Kealy whose death is depicted in The Feather Men at the hands of The Clinic, spoke out, saying that her father had died during an endurance exercise in the Brecon Beacons in 1979.
Brecon Beacons | Beacons Way | Neath and Brecon Railway | Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal | Brecon Cathedral | Brecon Beacons Mountain Centre | Archdeacon of Brecon | Anna Brecon |
The views from the top encompass the Shropshire Hills AONB, Wenlock Edge, the Long Mynd, both Clee Hills, the Radnorshire / Welsh hills; views south reach as far as Mortimer Forest, the Brecon Beacons, Black Mountains and Malvern Hills.
It gives excellent panoramic views over the valley of the River Usk, across to the Black Mountains and west to the Brecon Beacons.
Coelbren, Powys, a village in the south-west of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales