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Llanover and Out! Benjamin (Big Ben) Hall’s Monmouthshire Estate Length of Walk: 7.8 miles - 12.6km Approximate time taken to walk route: 4½ hours Start: Layby on the A4042 Abergavenny to Pontypool road (Grid Reference: SO 306 097) Ordnance Survey map: OS Explorer 1:25 000 Sheet OL13 Brecon Beacons Tomb of Benjamin and Augusta Hall, Llanover Church National Park (Eastern Area) The route heads through fields to Llanover Church, then crosses Llanover Park where the tree-lined drive leads you out to the village. From here you head up No facilities in the village of Llanover The Goose and Cuckoo Inn, Upper Llanover into the foothills of the Brecon Beacons and Upper Llanover. On reaching the Parking available at start Goose and Cuckoo public house on the Blaenavon mountain road the path crosses the valley and descends by some delightful hidden woods and streams to the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. A walk along the towpath brings you back to your starting point. No of Stiles: 32 Points of interest include Llanover estate church where Benjamin Hall and his Varied terrain including cross field paths, woodland paths, a long steady wife Augusta, Lady Llanover are buried in an elaborate grave. Big Ben is said to ascent, some short steep sections, steps. be named for Benjamin Hall, while Lady Llanover is credited with revitalising the Welsh language and traditional Welsh costume in the 1800s. This route passes the site of the cloth factory she supported, and, due to her support of the temperance movement, the Goose and Cuckoo pub is found just beyond her boundaries. .

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