The mansion is surrounded by a 400 acre estate of farm and woodland with sweeping views to the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. You can fish for trout on the pretty Trothy, a tributary of the Wye, which runs through the estate (see local map) and there is coarse fishing on a pond by the house. There are a wealth of fascinating places to see and visit within a short drive: charming towns like Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye, the ruined abbey of Tintern, an abundance of castles in this borderland region, the scenic delights of the Wye Valley, the Forest of Dean and the Black Mountains and the industrial history of the South Wales valleys and the Forest of Dean.
Monmouth, which is four miles from Treowen, has the usual range of shops for a market town, the first Waitrose in Wales and ...