Wernddu Farm Golf Club

Spanning part of the Welsh-English border, the little town of Abergavenny not only sits at the 'Gateway of Wales’ but also at the foot of the mountains, and to get to this interesting little town from the site will take just over five minutes by car, or around a healthy 45-minute walk if you’d rather explore by foot. A 10-minute drive by car from the site and you’ll reach the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Just over 20 minutes’ drive south-west will take you to the World Heritage Site at Blaenavon Ironworks, the setting for BBC’s Coal House, and where you can explore the remains of the furnaces and the restored Water Balance Tower. Reconstructions and exhibitions will ensure the kids are kept busy taking in a fair few facts too. Roam about to the Roman baths, fortress and amphitheatre at Caerleon, about half an hour by car southward from Wernddu Farm, or step back in time 900 years at the Tretower Court and Castle which has been home to many a well-to-do Welsh family over the centuries, about 13 miles north-west of the site in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail can be reached from Wernddu Farm - drive south to Chepstow to start the trail from its beginning, or join it as it passes Monmouth.