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Aberaman

Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales.

Aberaman
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The place

Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. Most of the industry has now disappeared and a substantial proportion of the working population travel to work in Cardiff and the M4 corridor. Many residents also work in the nearby towns of Aberdare and Pontypridd.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aberaman

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mynydd Merthyr

    Mynydd Merthyr is a broad ridge of high ground between Taff Vale and the Cwm Cynon in the Valleys region of South Wales. It forms the boundary between the unitary authorities of Rhondda Cynon Taff to the west and Merthyr Tydfil to the east.

    3.7 km · mountain in south Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Siloa Welsh Independent Chapel

    Siloa Chapel was the largest of the Welsh Independent, or Congregationalist, chapels in Aberdare. It operated from 1844 to 2020.

    2 km · Independent chapel in Aberdare · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Calfaria Welsh Baptist Chapel

    Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare, was one of the largest baptist churches in the South Wales Valleys and the oldest in the Aberdare valley. The chapel had an ornate interior, including a boarded ceiling with a deeply undercut rose, while the balcony balustrading had a cast iron front with an intricate foliage design.

    1.8 km · Baptist chapel in Aberdare · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bethania Presbyterian Church

    Bethania was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, which seated 550 people. Located near the centre of Aberdare, it had a somewhat concealed entrance and was approached up a long flight of steps.

    1.8 km · Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Aberdare · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bethel, Abernant

    Bethel, Abernant is a Baptist Chapel at Abernant in the Aberdare Valley in Wales and one of the few nonconformist chapels in the area that remained open into the twenty-first century.

    2.3 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Matthew's Church, Abernant

    St Matthew's Church, Abernant is in the Parish of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf. It is one of only a handful of tin tabernacles left in Wales.

    2.2 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bethania

    Bethania is an Independent chapel in Phillip Street, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Bethania are conducted in the Welsh language.

    3.8 km · chapel in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cefn Gwyngul

    Cefn Gwyngul is a long broad ridge to the east of the Rhondda Fach valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough in South Wales. Its 470m high summit is marked by an ancient cairn known as Carn-y-Pigwn, on which is a more recent trig point.

    3.8 km · hill (470m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Saron Independent Chapel

    Saron was a Welsh Independent chapel in Davies Street, Aberaman, Wales, formed as an initiative of the David Price of Siloa, Aberdare, soon after the development of Aberaman as an industrial settlement as a result of the activities of Crawshay Bailey and David Davis, Blaengwawr. Saron was claimed to be the largest chapel in the Cynon Valley although Calvaria, Abercynon, Ebenezer, Trecynon and Siloa, Aberdare all had a similar capacity.

    400 m · chapel in Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Elvan's Church

    St Elvan's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the centre of the town of Aberdare. It was built in 1851–1852, largely at the instigation of John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare from 1847 until 1859.

    1.9 km · church in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Aberaman

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 34 km · Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 142 km
Stations
Fernhill railway station, 2.6 km · Aberdare railway station, 1.9 km · Cwmbach railway station, 800 m · Aberdare Low Level railway station, 1.7 km · Aberaman railway station, 200 m
  • Bristol → Aberaman
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Aberaman
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–22
  • London → Aberaman
    229 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · £24–33
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aberaman

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aberaman. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is an international airport at Cardiff and a small airport serving private planes at Swansea There are regular car ferry services from Ireland to Fishguard and Pembroke.

From Wikivoyage: South Wales, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    104 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    186 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    456 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    481 km

If you know how people move in Aberaman – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aberaman

Aberaman is 30 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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