With a population of some 750 people, the numbers are swollen by the thousands of tourists who visit every year. This is border country - officially Wales, but in spirit neither Welsh or English - it's "The Valley"!
The beauty of Tintern and the Wye Valley
has inspired many authors, poets and painters over the years. The
most famous painter to have visited the Abbey was Turner, and of
course, Wordsworth immortalised Tintern in his work "Prelude".