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This web page provides an introduction
to the excellent facilities offered at the Danywenallt Study Centre.
Detailed information is available from the
Danywenallt
Study Centre. Anyone intending to book the centre for a group or join a course
should contact the Study Centre Manage for up to date
and detailed information about facilities, charges and courses on offer.
The Study Centre also serves as a
Youth Hostel in conjunction with the YHA.
Specialist Courses
This Brecon Beacons National Park Authority study
centre is located in a converted farm to the south of Talybont on Usk. Throughout the year
the
Danywenallt Study Centre is used by a wide variety of groups which follow a range of
activities related to the study or appreciation of the environment generally and the
Brecon Beacons in particular.
The study centre is equipped with a lecture / dining hall,
a lounge a study room and 11 bedrooms and one of which has a wheelchair access. Every
bedroom has its own a shower and most have a separate toilet.
The centre is booked by schools and
colleges as a residential study base for a range of courses. Weekend bookings
are very popular with walking clubs, photographic societies and landscape
painting groups. The centre is also used for in-service training, meetings and
conferences on a day or residential basis.
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Clothing and equipment:
Many of the courses held at the centre will involve periods
out of doors. It should be noted that even in the summer the weather in the Brecon Beacons
can be cold, wet and changeable. It is advisable to bring suitable comfortable clothing
and equipment. Further advice regarding the clothing and equipment a particular activity
will require is available from the study centre manager or the course leader.
The study centre is registered with the adventure
activities licensing authority to provide specified activities in hill walking and
mountaineering. Other activities offered at the centre may not necessarily come within the
scope of the adventure activities licensing regulations 1996. Further inquiries may be
made via the centre manager.
Outdoor Activities
in the Brecon Beacons
Details of the cost of booking the centre may be obtained
by contacting the centre manager. Different fee arrangements exist for primary schools,
secondary schools, all other groups and for day courses.
For further details bookings and fees
contact:
Danywenallt Study Centre Manager,
Talybont on Usk, Brecon, Powys, LD3 7YS Telephone 01874 - 676677.
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Location and
Directions:
The study centre is located at SO 107205. An infrequent bus
service runs between Abergavenny and the Brecon via Talybont on Usk. Arrangements to
collect the visitors from Talybont on Usk can be made by contacting the centre manager
prior to arrival. The nearest railway stations are located at Merthyr Tydfil and
Abergavenny. It would be necessary to take public transport from these railway stations
and it should be noted that services are infrequent.
The study centre can be reached from Talybont on Usk by following up the road
signposted to Talybont reservoir. This takes you from the centre of Talybont
village across the canal draw bridge and along a minor road through the small
community of Aber until reaching the Talybont reservoir dam wall. Drive across
the dam wall and on the far side a drive away on the left leads down to the
study centre.
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