Llandogo: A Short History

Llandogo is a small village based in the heart of the Wye Valley set on a steep hillside overlooking the River Wye. The village is surrounded by wonderful woodland and riverside walks. Paths zigzag alongside Cleddon Shoots, and the Wye Valley Walk leads above the village.

Llandogo was once an important river port, and its pub, The Sloop Inn, owes its name to this. Flat-bottomed barges known as trows, which worked the river between here and Bristol, gave name to the 17th Century Llandoger Trow, a public house near the Bristol's harbour. The bell of The William and Sarah, one of the last Chepstow barges to trade on the river can be found in church at Llandogo