Hay-on-Wye
Good to know
- Best time to go
- April to October; late May for the literary festival
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A small market town on the border between Wales and England in the Wye Valley, Hay-on-Wye has an outsized international reputation as a centre for second-hand and antiquarian books, with over twenty bookshops in a town of fewer than two thousand people. The Hay Festival, held annually in late May, is one of the leading literary festivals in the English-speaking world. The town sits at the edge of the Black Mountains, providing immediate access to open hill walking.
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