Tal-y-bont on Usk

This tiny village in the Brecon Beacons of Powys, Wales, sitting alongside the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal and close to the River Usk, with mountain terrain on all sides. Once a centre of the wool industry, it is now a base for canal and hill walking. The poet and author Roland Mathias was born here, and the nearby village of Llansantffraed is the burial place of the poet Henry Vaughan.

• Population682
• Nearest water0.2 km
• Nearest mountain1.4 km
• UNESCO within 50 km1