insideKENT Magazine Issue 24 - March 2014 | Page 118

GETAWAYS A Welsh Adventure B Y A D A M R E A D Y ©Brecon Beacons NPA 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