Llugwy Chambered Tomb

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Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

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The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Cadw lists no designated parking. Reviewers use a very small roadside space by the tomb's gate, room for two cars at most and doubling as a passing place on the winding single-track lane, unsuitable for campervans or caravans; the wide lay-by that serves Capel Llugwy and Din Llugwy is 235 m north-west along the lane, which has no pavement. Nothing is published about either, so the status is recorded as unknown.

Driving pin: the tomb's roadside kissing gate on the lane (Cadw's own arrival point), 25 m from its marker on the stones. By road: three-quarters of a mile north of Llanallgo, off the A5025. National Cycle Network route 5 passes 6.6 km away.

About

Llugwy Chambered Tomb, Beddrod Siambr Llugwy or Lligwy burial chamber, has a squashed look about it, as if its supporting stones were being slowly forced into the ground by its massive capstone. Yet this late Neolithic tomb beside a lane north of Llanallgo is roofed by a formidable stone 18 feet long by 15 wide weighing an estimated 25 tons, one of the biggest in Britain, resting on eight low uprights over a natural fissure in the rock. Originally covered by an earthen mound, it was excavated in 1908, when the bones of men, women and children, were found with animal bones, limpet shells, flint tools, pottery and a bone pin. It is one of three free Cadw sites on the same lane with Capel Llugwy and the Roman village of Din Llugwy, all walkable from one lay-by. Reviewers find a quiet place a few metres from the road, worth a few minutes on the way to its neighbours; the lane is single track, so pull in considerately.

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Today, Saturday 24 October

Llugwy Chambered Tomb10:00 – 16:00last admission 15:30

Free entry

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open 10am to 4pm all year, last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. No admission charge. Cadw asks visitors to come within these hours for safety and may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather. A visitor in July 2026 found the enclosure gate locked, with the tomb seen from the fence; Cadw says nothing about this.

Terrain level 3, moderate: the tomb stands in a small fenced enclosure about five metres from the lane through a kissing gate, on grass that may be slippery or muddy, with grazing animals possible on the neighbouring farmland; do not climb on the stones. No facilities. Drones are not permitted.

Photo: The huge grooved limestone capstone of Llugwy Chambered Tomb resting low on its upright stones, in grass under a blue sky. Beep boop beep, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lligwy_Burial_Chamber_with_background_fence.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.