Abercynon
Abercynon is a village and community in the Cynon Valley within the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Abercynon is a village and community in the Cynon Valley within the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The community comprises the village and the districts of Carnetown and Grovers Field to the south, Navigation Park to the east, and Glancynon to the north.
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Worth seeing in and around Abercynon
2 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.
- 01Tabernacle, Ynysybwl
Tabernacle, Ynysybwl is a former Independent chapel in Other Street, Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
2.3 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia - 02Carmel Independent Chapel
Carmel, Penrhiwceiber is an Independent chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Carmel were conducted in the Welsh language.
3.9 km · chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Abercynon
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 28 km · Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 141 km
- Stations
- Abercynon railway station, 200 m · Penrhiwceiber railway station, 3.7 km · Quakers Yard railway station, 1.8 km · Abercynon North railway station, 100 m
- Bristol → Abercynon55 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Abercynon135 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–22
- London → Abercynon222 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Abercynon
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 Abercynon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Abercynon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Abercynon
Abercynon is 21 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Penrhiwceibervillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.7 km
- Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwmcommunity in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.7 km
- Glyncochsuburb in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales2.7 km
- Cilfynyddvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales2.2 km
- Graigwenvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.7 km