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INSIDE! - at village hall, post code: LD3 7YQ LD3 code: post hall, village at - for the latest event information event latest the for . MAP Facebook page page Facebook our or VisitTalybontOnUsk www.talybontonusk.com EVENTS TOILETS HUB, BIKE PARKING, CAR might take your fancy whilst you are visiting. Check out our website website our out Check visiting. are you whilst fancy your take might LARGE over the year, it is well worth keeping an eye out for something that that something for out eye an keeping worth well is it year, the over LOCAL TASTE days adventure. When you come back back come you When adventure. days Holiday, a living nativity at Christmas and lots of other village events events village other of lots and Christmas at nativity living a Holiday, heating services the building. the services heating to unload your bikes and get set for the the for set get and bikes your unload to back in time with an annual village show on the Saturday August Bank Bank August Saturday the on show village annual an with time in back heats our hot water and air source source air and water hot our heats Park here for the Bike Hub, a safe place place safe a Hub, Bike the for here Park With National Garden Scheme open gardens, regular film nights, a dip dip a nights, film regular gardens, open Scheme Garden National With Adventure time! Adventure drink & food Great explore to much So panels. Energy from these panels panels these from Energy panels. • Accessible pedestrian entrance pedestrian Accessible generated by our 8KW bank of solar solar of bank 8KW our by generated • Picnic table Picnic harvesting and electricity is being being is electricity and harvesting • www.talybontenergy.co.uk Community Orchard Trail Orchard Community wash and public toilets use rainwater rainwater use toilets public and wash • Multi activity sports courts sports activity Multi reduce our carbon footprint. Our bike bike Our footprint. carbon our reduce of opportunities to sample local food and drink. and food local sample to opportunities of electric car charging points for visitors to use. use. to visitors for points charging car electric Playing field Playing striving to use green technologies and and technologies green use to striving With three pubs, a restaurant and café there are plenty plenty are there café and restaurant a pubs, three With a community car running on biodiesel. We’ve also installed 2 2 installed also We’ve biodiesel. on running car community a • Flat Trim Trail around the large large the around Trail Trim Flat Talybont Hub we are continually continually are we Hub Talybont community electric van ‘Heulwen’ and we also run ‘Mr Chips’ Chips’ ‘Mr run also we and ‘Heulwen’ van electric community WC (have a 10 pence piece handy!) handy!) piece pence 10 a (have WC sausages, faggots, lamb, goat, mutton and Scotch eggs Scotch and mutton goat, lamb, faggots, sausages, Setting a Green Standard: at the the at Standard: Green a Setting the community hall and some of the solar energy powers our our powers energy solar the of some and hall community the • disabled including Toilets Public Coity Bach Farm Produce is well known for its award winning winning award its for known well is Produce Farm Bach Coity community. We’ve installed solar PV and air source heating in in heating source air and PV solar installed We’ve community. • nailed … hope you do too. do you hope … nailed Bike Hub Bike Aber Valley Apple Juice, and local Jams & Chutneys. & Jams local and Juice, Apple Valley Aber Grid and uses the income to fund sustainability projects in our our in projects sustainability fund to income the uses and Grid • for refreshments! We think we have it it have we think We refreshments! for New Playground New Talybont Stores also stocks local produce such as as such produce local stocks also Stores Talybont Talybont Energy sells the electricity it generates to the National National the to generates it electricity the sells Energy Talybont 3rd edition 3rd heading off to one of the hostelries hostelries the of one to off heading great facilities here for everyone. for here facilities great can enjoy a well-earned shower before before shower well-earned a enjoy can Talybont now generates about 20% of the electricity it uses. uses. it electricity the of 20% about generates now Talybont Talybont Energy, there are now lots of of lots now are there Energy, Talybont Talybont Stores include Jewellery, Cards, Mugs and much more. much and Mugs Cards, Jewellery, include Stores Talybont the new wet rooms where for a £1 you you £1 a for where rooms wet new the scheme. Together with other local hydro & solar installations, installations, solar & hydro local other with Together scheme. Sustainable Development Fund and and Fund Development Sustainable Regan’s crafts & Handmade goods are available to buy at at buy to available are goods Handmade & crafts Regan’s clean and then pop yourself into one of of one into yourself pop then and clean you’ll see the turbine house below and can read about the the about read can and below house turbine the see you’ll With help from the Big Lottery, Lottery, Big the from help With washes (£1 for 6 mins) to get your bike bike your get to mins) 6 for (£1 washes hand made jewellery and artisan bread and chocolate. and bread artisan and jewellery made hand from Talybont Reservoir. Walk along the reservoir dam and and dam reservoir the along Walk Reservoir. Talybont from tired and muddy, use one of the bike bike the of one use muddy, and tired anything from vintage kitchenalia and a retro coffee set to to set coffee retro a and kitchenalia vintage from anything in Wales. Our 36kW turbine works off the compensation flow flow compensation the off works turbine 36kW Our Wales. in Retro and Artisan Fair in the Henderson Hall where you’ll find find you’ll where Hall Henderson the in Fair Artisan and Retro the first community-owned Hydro scheme scheme Hydro community-owned first the Welsh woollen blankets. They play host to an annual Vintage, Vintage, annual an to host play They blankets. woollen Welsh Talybont is proud to have developed developed have to proud is Talybont and retro items. In addition to this they create beautiful homewares from vintage vintage from homewares beautiful create they this to addition In items. retro and into reality into Cow & Ghost Vintage are based in the village and share a passion for vintage vintage for passion a share and village the in based are Vintage Ghost & Cow Green energy turned turned energy Green experience appointment. an make to phone please studio, her to visitors welcomes Sue and stained glass, combining contemporary and traditional methods of working. working. of methods traditional and contemporary combining glass, stained and Sue Thorne creates beautiful art out of glass. She paints on glass using fused glass glass fused using glass on paints She glass. of out art beautiful creates Thorne Sue Nigel also teaches photography for groups and individuals. and groups for photography teaches also Nigel real A very very A beyond. and Wales over all from and Beacons Brecon the from images landscape photographer with a wide collection of fine art art fine of collection wide a with photographer landscape Creative Photography Wales is run by Nigel Forster, a a Forster, Nigel by run is Wales Photography Creative a wide variety of superb art from the surrounding area. area. surrounding the from art superb of variety wide a from within the Brecon Beacons. His gallery also includes includes also gallery His Beacons. Brecon the within from for sale at Talybont Stores. Stores. Talybont at sale for at Henderson Hall Henderson at creates handcrafted pieces using locally sourced timber timber sourced locally using pieces handcrafted creates fast charger on the side of the village hall with tokens tokens with hall village the of side the on charger fast Visit Talybont On Usk Usk On Talybont Visit www.talybontonusk.com HUB by woodturner Harry Chapman. Harry Harry Chapman. Harry woodturner by Hub. For anyone arriving by electric car you will find a a find will you car electric by arriving anyone For Hub. Gallery, next to the White Hart Inn, is owned owned is Inn, Hart White the to next Gallery, honesty box goes into maintaining the facilities at the the at facilities the maintaining into goes box honesty Talybont on Usk on Talybont Cam Ty appointment. by or year the of VILLAGE VILLAGE for parking but proceeds from anything you put in the the in put you anything from proceeds but parking for galleries open to the public at various times times various at public the to open galleries for you and the people who live here! We don’t charge charge don’t We here! live who people the and you for There are several artists in the village; all with with all village; the in artists several are There visitors to park in the hall carpark, making life easier easier life making carpark, hall the in park to visitors TALYBONT TALYBONT TALYBONT ENERGY TALYBONT ACTIVITIES CREATIVE Village Hub (LD3 7YQ for SatNav). We do encourage encourage do We SatNav). for 7YQ (LD3 Hub Village Located in the heart of the village, you will find our our find will you village, the of heart the in Located Intermediate mountain bikers can test Take your binoculars themselves on the short but strenuous Blue Usk Valley walk to Talybont reservoir, Cycling & Mountain biking route that heads up the Brinore Tramroad A challenging 77km long linear peacefully set in the hills You bring the energy, we provide then down across the Dam and through the walk, starting in Caerleon and south of the village.
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