River Wye
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The River Wye is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some 250 kilometres from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary. For much of its length the river forms part of the border between England and Wales. The Wye Valley is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Wye is important for nature conservation and recreation, but is affected by pollution.
The Wye at Hay-on-Wye
The Wye at Chepstow, showing the castle and the road bridge linking Monmouthshire (on the left) with Gloucestershire
Kayaking near Hay-on-Wye
A railway poster advertising the Wye Valley as a tourist destination. Date is before 1942.
Builth Wells
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Builth Wells is a market town and community in the county of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh part of the Wye Valley. In 2011 it had a population of 2,568.
Bridge over the River Wye at Builth Wells
Bronze sculpture of a Welsh Black bull by Gavin Fifield
The remains of Builth Wells railway station in 1967
Flooding in 1910s; photo by Percy Benzie Abery.