Business & Enterprise

The majority of the tourism, recreation, retail and other businesses in the AONB are small in scale, employing a maximum of 49 people. In fact, there are only seven businesses in the whole area that employ more than 100 people. An ever-increasing proportion of the people working in the area are people working from home or operating from small business units.

In order to support a thriving rural economy, the AONB encourages and supports the use of local produce, local shops, local crafts, local tourism and recreation businesses and local services.

Rural Crafts

The attached links (being updated from March 2007) detail hedgelayers, woodland contractors (coppicing/fencing) and drystone wallers operating within, or close to the Wye Valley AONB

Chris Hodges has been a drystone waller for more than 20 years and has run courses for the Woodland Trust, Wye Valley AONB and Gwent Wildlife Trust. drystone waller

Business Links:

  • Monmouth Chamber
  • Chepstow Chamber
  • Ross Chamber
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