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Abergavenny ( archaically " Abergafenni " meaning " Mouth of the ___MASK65___ Gavenny ") is a market town in Monmouthshire , Wales . It is located west of Monmouth on the A40 and A465 roads , from the English border . Originally the site of a Roman fort , Gobannium , it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh marches . The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales . The town hosted the 2016 National Eisteddfod of Wales . Ysgyryd ___MASK12___ is a hill one mile east of Abergavenny in the county of Monmouthshire , south Wales . It is often referred to in English as ' Little Skirrid ' or sometimes as ' Skirrid ___MASK12___ '. Its summit height is just over 270m . A conifer plantation extends over much of the hill including its summit ; prior to felling of trees on the upper slopes in 2012 outward views were therefore restricted . The hill is considered to be one of the ' ___MASK44___ hills of Abergavenny '. Yr Wyddfa commonly known as Snowdon in English , is the highest ___MASK34___ in Wales , at an ___MASK63___ of above ___MASK17___ level , and the highest point in the British Isles south of the Scottish Highlands . It is located in Snowdonia National Park (") in Gwynedd , and has been described as " probably the busiest ___MASK34___ in Britain ". It is designated as a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna . Wales is a ___MASK58___ that is ___MASK99___ of the United Kingdom and the ___MASK3___ of Great Britain . It is bordered by ___MASK78___ to the east , the Irish ___MASK17___ to the north and west , and the Bristol Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3 , 063 , 456 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous , with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon , its highest summit . The ___MASK58___ lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . A ___MASK58___ is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political ___MASK85___ . A ___MASK58___ may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical ___MASK85___ , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a ___MASK58___ is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . The Bristol ___MASK86___ is a major inlet in the ___MASK3___ of Great Britain , separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West ___MASK78___ . It extends from the lower estuary of the ___MASK65___ Severn to the North Atlantic Ocean . It takes its name from the English city of Bristol , and is over 30 miles ( 50 km ) across at its widest point . Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large ___MASK3___ in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European ___MASK3___ and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the ___MASK3___ had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous ___MASK3___ after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The ___MASK3___ of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over ___MASK77___ , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . The Brecon Beacons is a ___MASK46___ in South Wales . In a narrow sense , the name refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peaks which lie to the south of Brecon . Sometimes referred to as " the central Beacons " they include South Wales ' highest mountain , Pen y Fan . The range forms the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park (" Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog "), a designation which also encompasses ranges both to the east and the west of " the central Beacons ". This much wider area is also commonly referred to as " the Brecon Beacons ", and it includes the Black Mountains to the east as well as the similarly named but quite distinct Black Mountain to the west . The highest peaks include Fan Brycheiniog to the west and Pen y Fan in the central part . They share the same basic geology as the central range , and so exhibit many similar features , such the north - facing escarpment and glacial features such as lakes and cwms below the escarpment . They all fall within the border of the national park . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK58___ in western Europe . ___MASK37___ off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the ___MASK3___ of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK58___ ), the north - eastern part of the ___MASK3___ of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe ___MASK68___ of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK17___ to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic ___MASK17___ to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish ___MASK17___ lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK58___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK58___ in the European Union . Monmouthshire is a ___MASK36___ in south east Wales . The name derives from the historic ___MASK36___ of Monmouthshire of which it covers the eastern 60 %. The largest town is Abergavenny . Other towns and large villages are Caldicot , Chepstow , Monmouth , Magor and Usk . Ysgyryd Fawr is an easterly outlier of the Black Mountains in Wales , and forms the easternmost ___MASK99___ of the Brecon Beacons National Park . The name is often anglicised to The Skirrid or Skirrid Fawr , and the mountain is also known as Holy Mountain or Sacred Hill . The spelling Skyrrid is also encountered in older literature . The lower hill of Ysgyryd ___MASK12___ or ' Little Skirrid ' ( 270m ) lies about 4 . 5 km / 2 . 5 mi to the south . It is 486 m or 1594 feet high and lies just to the north - east of Abergavenny , Monmouthshire , about 10 miles from the English border . The Beacons Way passes along the ridge . The Irish ___MASK17___ (, , , Ulster - Scots : " Airish ___MASK17___ "), separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic ___MASK17___ in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish ___MASK17___ , followed by the Isle of Man . The ___MASK17___ is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx ___MASK17___ . ___MASK78___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish ___MASK17___ lies northwest of ___MASK78___ and the Celtic ___MASK17___ lies to the southwest . ___MASK78___ is separated from continental Europe by the North ___MASK17___ to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . A national ___MASK2___ is a ___MASK2___ in use for ___MASK79___ purposes . Often it is a reserve of natural , semi - natural , or developed land that a ___MASK72___ declares or owns . Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently , there is a common idea : the ___MASK79___ of ' wild nature ' for posterity and as a ___MASK75___ of national pride . An international organization , the International Union for ___MASK79___ of Nature ( IUCN ), and its World Commission on Protected Areas , has defined " National Park " as its " Category II " type of protected areas . The Brecon Beacons National ___MASK2___ is one of three national parks in Wales , and is centred on the Brecon Beacons ___MASK7___ in southern Wales . It includes the Black Mountain in the west , (" Great Forest ") and the Brecon Beacons in the centre and the Black Mountains in the east .