Builth Wells

Builth Wells (Welsh: Llanfair ym Muallt) is a market town in Brecknockshire, Wales, UK.

Get in

By car

Two of the main truck roads though Wales, the A483 Swansea-Chester and the A470 Cardiff-Llandudno, go though the town.

By train

• 🌍 Builth Road railway station. On the Heart of Wales Line from Craven Arms in Shropshire (where there are connections from Shrewsbury) to Llanelli (updated Oct 2016)

Get around

See

• 🌍 Builth Castle. The castle build by King Edward I, only the mound on which it stood, the ditches and embankments remain. (updated Oct 2016)

Do

Event

• Royal Welsh Show: 22–25 July 2019. One of the largest agricultural shows in Europe

Buy

Eat

• 🌍 The Lamb, Broad Street. Nic & Petra who have developed an excellent bar snack menu complemented by excellent real ales and a wide range of beers, lagers and cider many on hand pull and are all kept to a very high standard. Well worth a visit when you are in the area especially Welsh Show week and Motorcycle weekend when there is usually a real ale beer festival in the beer garden. 

Drink

Sleep

• 🌍 The Drawing Room Restaurant with Rooms, alongside the A470, north of Builth Wells, ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. beautiful five-star, two-rosette restaurant with rooms started life as a Georgian country residence built in 1725. 
• 🌍 Carregywen Farmhouse, Rhosferig, Builth Wells. Self catering accommodation that sleeps up to 8 people a few miles outside the town centre. 
• 🌍 Fforest Fields Caravan & Camping Park, Fforest Fields, Hundred House (Located a few miles from Builth Wells), ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. David Bellamy Gold Award for their environmental conservation. £20 per caravan per night. 

Go next

• Llanwrtyd Wells
• Llandrindod Wells
• Rhayader
• Brecon
• Hay-on-Wye