Tregwehelydd Standing Stone

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingNo car park

Arrive on foot, by bike or by public transport.

Parking details

Cadw lists no designated parking. A visitor in May 2023 parked on the grass verge at the end of the farm's entrance drive rather than at the farm, where permission may be sought, and followed the direction signs through one farm gate to the stone; nothing is published, so the status is recorded as none. Do not block the farm drive or field gates. The route is not mapped; the stone is about 580 m from the farm entrance in a straight line, so allow 600 m or more each way, at times along a tramline through an arable field, with grazing animals possible.

Driving pin: Cadw's own what3words point where the Tregwehelydd farm drive leaves the lane, 583 m south-south-east of its marker on the stone. By road: 1.75 miles north-east of Bodedern, off the B5109. National Cycle Network route 5 passes 1.5 km away.

About

Tregwehelydd Standing Stone, Maen Hir Tregwehelydd, stands all alone on the crest of a low ridge close to the river Alaw north-east of Bodedern, still a commanding feature of the surrounding farmland after some 4,000 years. The early Bronze Age monolith, 2.6 metres high and nearly a metre wide, has not been treated kindly by the millennia: it shattered into three fragments and in 1969 was bound back together with iron hoops and bolts and set in concrete, giving it its splintered look. A second stone lies fallen about 3.6 metres to the north and may once have stood as its pair, although recent visitors could not find it. There is no designated parking: the stone is signposted from the entrance to Tregwehelydd farm, where visitors leave the car on the verge without blocking the drive and walk about 600 metres through one farm gate across fields that may be cropped or grazed, with fine views from the top.

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Today, Saturday 24 October

Tregwehelydd Standing Stone10:00 – 16:00last admission 15:30

Free entry

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open all year 10am to 4pm, last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. No admission charge. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.

Terrain level 3, moderate: a farm drive, at least one farm gate and fields that may be cropped or grazed, with slippery or uneven surfaces. No facilities. Drones are not permitted.

Dogs: Cadw: 'Dogs welcome', with no lead rule on the page; the stone is not on Cadw's dog-friendly list. An open-air site on farmland.

Photo: The split Tregwehelydd standing stone bound with iron bands, beside its old green sign, in a field of tall grass under a cloudy sky. RobinLeicester, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tregwehelydd_Standing_Stone.JPG. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.