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Symonds Yat Rock was used as a location for some episodes of Series 5 of the BBC television drama Merlin. Symonds Yat was used as a location for some of the shots filmed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1; The Saracens Head Inn in the hamlet of Symonds Yat East was featured in Escape to the Country on BBC One in 2014.
Upper Wye Gorge and River Wye SSSIs at Symonds Yat Rock, Herefordshire. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Map [82] Notes A ...
Impressive cliffs have been cut by the river in lower dolomitic sections of the Carboniferous Limestone, most notably at the popular ‘Symonds Yat’ viewpoint, which affords one of the most famous views in England. Other ‘karst’ features such as caves, rock pillars and sink holes abound in this area.
Upper Wye Gorge is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological and geological characteristics, around Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley on the Wales–England border. [1] [2] The site is listed in the "Forest of Dean Local Plan Review" as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). [3]
Symonds Yat: Hand ferry at the Saracens Head Inn - Symonds Yat: Biblins Bridge - Site of Biblins Youth Campsite Wye Bridge (Monmouth) II: Built in 1617 Duke of Beaufort Bridge: II: Monmouth Troy: Built in 1874. It is listed (as a historic structure) simply as the Railway Bridge, Monmouth. Monmouth Viaduct
Around Symonds Yat, limestones and red sandstones meet. This leads to a landscape of hills and plains, as well as substantial meanders which have formed impressive river cliffs. The Lower Wye landscape was formed by the river acting on a series of layers of rock that dip towards the Forest of Dean.
King Arthur's Cave is a limestone cave at the foot of a low cliff at the north-western end of Lord's Wood in The Doward, near Symonds Yat, Herefordshire, about four miles northeast of Monmouth, in the Wye Valley. The cave entrance lies about 285 feet above the River Wye on a hill, [1] with a double interconnected entrance and two main chambers.
The route passes through Chepstow, the Wye Valley AONB, Tintern, Monmouth, Ross-on-Wye, Symonds Yat, Hereford, Hay-on-Wye, Builth Wells, Rhayader, and Llangurig to Plynlimon. The route of the Wye Valley Walk can be broken into 17 stages, [3] though the entire walk is often walked in seven day-length sections from Chepstow to Plynlimon, or vice ...