 The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some to the northwest.The name Capel-y-ffin comes from Welsh, and means "chapel of the boundary" since it lies in the valley of the River Honddu close to the borders with Monmouthshire in Wales and Herefordshire in England.It is now part of the Anglican Diocese of Swansea & Brecon in the Church in Wales, and borders the Anglican dioceses of Hereford and Monmouth.