Greenhouse, Cwmbran

Brains Brewery breathed new life into this roadside inn (a building thought to be 400+ years old) with extensive structural repairs and a tasteful refurbishment in late 2007. This saw the interior opened out to link the former public bar, that latterly included what was once a separate men only smoke room of 40+ years ago, with the lounge that was extended in December 2011. The roadside entrance of the bar has an old plaque above it depicting two tail-coated pipe-smoking gentlemen sat at a gate-legged table with a Welsh inscription 'Y Ty Gwyrdd, 1719, Cwrw da, A Seidir i chwi, Dewch y mewn, Chwi gewch y brofi' meaning 'The Green House, 1719, Good ale, And cider for you, Come in, You shall taste it'. This section is now a cosy drinking area with a brick fireplace as its focal point with exposed stonework and a combination of floorboards and floor tiles underfoot. It extends into the carpeted low beamed area that is the domain of diners. The menu offers a wide choice of dishes with occasional themed nights. The garden is a big attraction in fine weather. Look out for the spring bank holiday beer & cider festival. The guest ale is selected from the large Marston's portfolio. Quiz on on Sunday evenings.

Llantarnam is a historic area with its old Cistercian abbey, now a convent, the old church of St Michael and All Angels next door to the pub where John Fielding (aka Williams) VC, hero of Rorke's Drift lies buried. Opposite the former post office bears a plaque commemorating the arrest in 1678 of St David Lewis, a local catholic priest who was executed a year later in Usk.