Aberdare

Worth seeing in and around Aberdare

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
   Siloa Welsh Independent Chapel

   Independent chapel in Aberdare

   200 m · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Calfaria Welsh Baptist Chapel

   Baptist chapel in Aberdare

   400 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Bethania Presbyterian Church

   Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Aberdare

   300 m · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Matthew's Church, Abernant

   Church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Bethel, Abernant

   Church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Elvan's Church

   Church in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

   300 m · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown

   Grade II listed building in Aberdare

   900 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Aberdare Canal

   Canal in Wales

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Bryncarnau Grasslands, Llwydcoed

   Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

   3.8 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Bethesda Baptist Chapel

    Chapel in Abercwmboi, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

    3.9 km · 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.

Getting to Aberdare

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 36 km · Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 142 km

Stations

Aberdare railway station, 500 m · Cwmbach railway station, 2.8 km · Aberdare Low Level railway station, 600 m · Aberdare bus station, 500 m · Abernant railway station, 1.6 km

• Bristol → Aberdare

  66 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Aberdare

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
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• London → Aberdare

  231 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · £24–33
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aberdare

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 Aberdare. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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