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The 10 best burial mounds & barrows in South Wales

Our curated top 10 burial mounds & barrows in South Wales, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 23 burial mounds & barrows see the full burial mounds & barrows index for South Wales.

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    Tintern Abbey

    Tintern Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn ) is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border betwee

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    Dore Abbey: a Cistercian monastery

    Dore Abbey: a Cistercian monastery, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Details The monument includes the earthwork and buried remains of the claustral buildings and parts of the outer court and wider precinct of the Cistercian abbey at Dore, as well as the standing remai

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    Talley Abbey

    Talley Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Talley Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Talyllychau) is a ruined former monastery of the Premonstratensians ("White Canons") in the village of Talley in Carmarthenshire, Wales, six miles (10 km) north of the marke

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    Usk Castle

    Usk Castle, castles in South Wales

    Usk Castle (Welsh: Castell Brynbuga) is a castle site in the town of Usk in central Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It was listed Grade I on 16 February 1953. Within the castle, and i

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    Llantarnam Abbey

    Llantarnam Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Llantarnam Abbey is a Grade II*-listed house of the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy and the site of a former 12th-century Cistercian abbey located in Llantarnam, Cwmbran, in the county borough of Torfa

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    Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth

    Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth — site of former abbey in the United Kingdom.

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    Whitland Abbey

    Whitland Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Whitland Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Hendy-gwyn ar Daf or simply Y Tŷ Gwyn ar Daf; Latin: Albalanda) was a country house and Cistercian abbey in the parish of Llangan, in what was the hundred of Narberth, Pem

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    Neath Abbey

    Neath Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Neath Abbey is a abbey in the United Kingdom.

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    Dore Abbey

    Dore Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Dore Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in the village of Abbey Dore in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, England. A large part of the original medieval building has been used since the 16th century a

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    Margam Abbey

    Margam Abbey, abbeys & priories in South Wales

    Margam Abbey — Abbey in South Wales, UK.

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