Craig-y-Nos Country Park
Craig-y-nos Country Park is a 40 acre Victorian garden with shady woodlands, meadows, ponds, lazy lawns and rushing rivers, find it to the South of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park
Introducing Craig-y-nos Country Park
The historic grounds of Craig-y-nos Castle. once home to the internationally famous opera singer Adelina Patti. Now a registered Historic Park and Garden managed by Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park, this is a place where natural and manmade features mingle and the river meanders through the park.
The park today is served by many gentle, easy-to-follow paths and a visitor centre and tea room with benches and picnic areas, making it an ideal place to spend an afternoon.
History
Craig-y-nos was created for one of the most famous Victorian opera singers of her day – Adelina Patti – with all the features that any fashionable Victorian parkland needed: walled kitchen gardens, glasshouses, rock gardens, a croquet lawn, a rose garden, even a stocked fishing pond. the large staff of gardeners planted ornamental and exotic trees including walnut, acacia, mulberry and eucalyptus, as well as oaks and beech.
Later the site became a sanatorium for consumption patients.
Centre details
Open hours: 10am to 4.30pm every day
Address: Craig-y-nos Country Park, Pen-y-Cae, Swansea Valley, SA9 1GL
Tel: 01874 624437
If using an OS map try Explorer Map OL12 or Landranger Map 160 – SN840155
Ample pay and display parking, tarmac surface. Season tickets for the car park are available from the online shop.
Usually open 10am till 4pm
Friendly cafe selling locally roasted coffee, homemade pasties, sausage rolls and cakes, and Llanfaes dairy ice cream (made in Brecon).
Seating indoors and outdoors.
There are toilets near the cafe, and close to the fishpond, with disabled access and baby changing facilities.
You are welcome to bring your dog but please keep it on a lead.
Please note that dogs are not permitted in the hay meadow if sheep are grazing in the winter months.
