 The Nonconformist chapel after which the village was named is on a side road that follows the western edge of the Brecon Beacons.Bethlehem is overlooked by Carn Goch, a significant Iron Age hillfort with great heaps of stones remaining from the original ramparts.Bethlehem is around 6 miles from Dinefwr castle, capital of the pre-Norman Deheubarth kingdom and around 6 miles from the important and majestic Carreg Cennen castle that arose later.