A mile down a rural road from the village of Pontrhydfendigaid, this ruined Cistercian abbey sits in glorious isolation. The best-preserved remnant is an arched doorway, decorated with maze-like lines of stone. At the rear of the site two chapels still have some of their 14th-century tiling, and the now-forgotten Welsh chieftains are seeing out eternity in graves found in a small enclosure.
Pontrhydfendigaid is on the B4343, 15 miles southeast of Aberystwyth or 9 miles south of Devil's Bridge.
Founded in 1164, this monastery was once a hub of activity as the industrious monks ran a lead mine, a sheep farm and corn mills, grew wheat, produced peat and bred freshwater fish.
