insideKENT Magazine Issue 24 - March 2014 | Page 118
GETAWAYS
A Welsh Adventure
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Our first stop for two nights was Llangoed Hall,
a wonderfully elegant and historic country house
hotel situated in the beautiful Wye Valley in the
heart of the Welsh countryside. It offers the
quintessential Edwardian country house
experience, not to mention amazing food.
Llangoed Hall was believed to have been the
legendary White Palace, home of the first Welsh
parliament. A mansion existed from 1632. It was
first in the possession of the MacNamara family
having been won in a card game and it stayed
with them for two generations until 1847. In 1912
Clough Williams Ellis redesigned the mansion as
a country house. Sir Bernard Ashley bought
Llangoed Hall in 1987 and opened it as a hotel
in 1990.
We were very excited to be staying at Llangoed
Hall after they recently received the best restaurant
accolade for Great Britain and Ireland