Llanvihangel Crucorney (Welsh: Llanfihangel Crucornau) is a small village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.
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The village is located five miles north of Abergavenny and eighteen miles south of Hereford, England on the A465 road.
Llanvihangel Crucorney is a small village with a pub, The Skirrid Mountain Inn which claims to be the oldest inn or hostelry in Wales, dating from at least 1110, a parish church, namely St. Michael and All Angels [1], a primary school and a mixture of housing types ranging from Llanvihangel Court, a Tudor period country mansion to recently built executive-style homes.
A nearby hotel, the Allt Yr Ynys Country Hotel, is centred on a 16th century manor once owned by William Cecil, Lord Burghley, chief minister to Queen Elizabeth I for much of her reign.
The village is set in a rural landscape at the extreme eastern end of Brecon Beacons National Park and to the immediate east of the Black Mountains. The Skirrid or Ysgyryd Fawr lies just to the south whilst Llanthony Priory lies in the Vale of Ewyas just to the northwest. The area is farmed with a mix of sheep and dairy cattle grazing and pasture and arable crops.