Brecon Beacons
Proper noun
Meaning
Brecon Beacons pl (plural only)
A mountain range and national park in south-east Wales
Examples
Brookes and Davey 2009, p. 92. * On 11 February 1966, Vulcan B.2 XH536 of the Cottesmore Wing crashed in the Brecon Beacons during a low level exercise.
Brecon Beacons National Park planning officials said they are furious that Davies desecrated both the mansion house and the graveyard.
Private Michael Ihemere, 26, collapsed and died during a training exercise on a remote North Yorkshire moor – weeks after the death of three soldiers on exercises in Wales’s Brecon Beacons.
WHAT IS IT: A world-renowned literary festival in the idyllic location of the Brecon Beacons.
Laura Davies, the head distiller at in the Brecon Beacons, said that when she first started making whisky nine years ago, it was rare to see a woman at the pot still.
Slip into life in the Brecon Beacons in Wales as wildlife expert Iolo Williams watches the magic of the seasons unfold; birds such as dotterel in the Black Mountains and peregrines nesting in an old quarry feature in this episode.