Editing Hay-on-Wye (section)

==Location==
The town lies on the south-east bank of the [[River Wye]] and is within the north-easternmost tip of the [[Brecon Beacons National Park]], just north of the [[Black Mountains, Wales|Black Mountains]]. The town is just on the [[Wales-England border|Welsh side of the border]] with [[Herefordshire]], [[England]], here defined by the Dulas Brook. Where the brook joins the River Wye just north of the town, the border continues northwards along the river. The Wye was the boundary between the [[Historic counties of Wales|former counties]] and districts of [[Radnorshire]] and [[Brecknockshire]], with Hay lying in the latter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwtransp.htm|title=Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Middle Wye Valley: Transport and Communication Landscapes|publisher=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date=13 June 2022}}</ref>

The adjacent parish of [[Cusop]] lies on the English side of the Dulas Brook, with parts of the urban area of Hay now crossing the border into the parish of Cusop. The nearest city is [[Hereford]], [[county town]] of Herefordshire, some {{convert|22|mi|km}} to the east.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/storage/pdf/transport.pdf  |title=Getting to Hay|publisher=Hay-on-Wye Tourist Information Bureau| access-date=13 June 2022}}</ref> Hereford serves as the [[post town]] for Hay, so that its official postal address is "Hay-on-Wye, Hereford", despite Hay being in Wales and Hereford in England.<ref>{{cite book |title=Sheppard's Book Dealers in the British Isles |date=1990 |publisher=Richard Joseph |page=8 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sheppard_s_Book_Dealers_in_the_British_I/_ddMAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Hay-on-Wye%2C%20Hereford%22&dq=%22Hay-on-Wye%2C%20Hereford%22%20%22postal%20address%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=17 November 2024}}</ref>

Hay-on-Wye is in the area known as "[[Francis Kilvert|Kilvert]] country" which includes [[Clyro]], [[Capel-y-ffin]], [[Llowes]], [[Glasbury]], [[Llanigon]], [[Painscastle]], [[Clifford, Herefordshire|Clifford]] and [[Whitney-on-Wye]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exploring Mid Wales - Kilvert's Diaries |url=https://www.exploringmidwales.co.uk/specialist-tours/literary-tours/kilvert-s-diaries/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.exploringmidwales.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Balch |first=Oliver |date=2016-04-09 |title=Walking the Welsh Marches with a Victorian clergyman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/apr/09/walking-welsh-marches-with-victorian-clergyman-kilverts-diary |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=Mar 2019 |title="Kilvert Society Newsletter No. 48 - Clyro and Llanigon: the Kilvert Society Autumn weekend" |url=https://www.thekilvertsociety.org.uk/assets/downloads/archive/kilvert-society-journal-48.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Powys & the Brecon Beacons National Park - Heritage & Cultural Audit |url=https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/oldsite/the-authority/working-in-partnership/tourism-new/sustainability-1/Powys%20Heritage%20and%20Cultural%20Audit%20Final.pdf}}</ref>