Goytre Wharf

Set entirely within the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is among the most beautiful anywhere on the waterways. The main visitor information centre is at the picturesque Goytre Wharf, which is an eight acre site, popular with locals and visitors alike. There is over 200 years of industrial heritage to discover, including a list of people who have lived at the wharf since 1811 and their backgrounds.

A gift shop includes canal and National Park information, gallery, and coffee shop. You can also see and feed the fish in the marina. Facilities include water, rubbish disposal, WC (including disabled), showers, pump-out, chandlery, boat repair, 48hr mooring and slipway. Red Line Boats (01873 880516), based at the wharf, offers narrowboat hire - either day hire or for holidays. The nearest pub is easily walkable at Llanover Bridge No 84. The picturesque town of Abergavenny is nearby.

A few miles away on the other side of the hill is Blaenavon (Tourist information: 01495 792615). In the 1860s this designated World Heritage Site was at the centre of the largest iron producing region in the world, using new techniques for smelting and rolling. The remains of the blast furnaces and works can be seen and here also is the Big Pit Mining Museum (01495 790311), where you can go underground in a former coal mine. Blaenavon, as part of reinventing itself as a tourist destination, has recently opened a number of second-hand bookshops in its centre.

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