Places to eat and things to do

Our nearest towns of Chepstow (5 miles) and Monmouth (10 miles) offer the range of shops and services that you would expect of small market towns and plenty of places to eat and drink. In the nearby villages there are small shops at Devauden (1 mile but rarely open), St Arvans (2 miles), Llanishen (3 miles) and Tintern (5 miles).

Gardens

There are two other gardens fairly nearby that are open regularly.

Dewstow Gardens - rediscovered underground caves and grottos, with lunch..

Penpergwn Lodge -should that rill run down the middle of the short side of that garden...?

There are also good garden centres at

Raglan (01291 690873),

Chepstow (01291 626035) - rather plastic: sells cds... but wide range of goods including rather more stylish pots than usual-

and Millbrook, near Monmouth (01600 713770) - a gardener's garden centre: you can still measure out your grass seed and buy labels loose. All of the garden centres have tea rooms.

Places to eat

Nearby pubs that do food that we go to regularly are:

The Rose and Crown, Tintern - great egg and chips.

The Lion at Trellech (01600 860322) - interesting menu

The Piercefield at St Arvans (01291 622614) - good for large parties, lots of room, food not special. Tintern has several pubs, hotels and tea-rooms (eg Abbey Tea Rooms)

Things to do

We are situated in the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so there is much to enjoy in the countryside. The Wye Valley between Chepstow and Monmouth is particularly impressive and there are many walks to enjoy. Tintern Abbey sits on the banks of the river Wye and was a major destination for thr Romantic poets and tourists studying the Picturesque.