Abersychan

Worth seeing in and around Abersychan

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
   Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

   Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, in and around Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, was inscribed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone.

   5.7 km · World Heritage Site in Blaenavon, south-east Wales · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mynydd Twyn-glas

   Mynydd Twyn-glas is a sprawling 472-metre-high mountain extending into Caerphilly and Torfaen county boroughs in South Wales. It lies southwest of Pontypool, west of Cwmbran and east of Newbridge, and forms a rolling plateau, the margins of which are defined by steep slopes, many cloaked with conifer plantations.

   5.6 km · hill (472m) on the boundary of Caerphilly and Torfaen, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Illtyd's Motte

   St Illtyd's Motte, also known as St Illtyd Castle Mound, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in the village of Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was probably destroyed by Llywelyn the Great in the early thirteenth century and not rebuilt.

   5.4 km · castle in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Torfaen Museum

   Torfaen Museum is a local history museum located in Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales. It is managed by a trust.

   3 km · local museum in Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Hilda's Church, Griffithstown

   Griffithstown is a large suburb of Pontypool in the borough of Torfaen, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in May 1898, from Llanfrechfa Upper and Panteg, and includes Sebastopol, but, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894, became a separate civil parish.

   4.9 km · church in Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Illtyd's Church

   St Illtyd's Church is a deconsecrated church in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. A Grade II* listed building, it is the oldest standing building in the county borough.

   5.3 km · church in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   The Guardian Of The Valleys

   The Guardian is a 20 m tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen.

   5.2 km · mining memorial statue · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Church of St Illtyd

   The Church of St Illtyd, Mamhilad, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a parish church with its origins in the 11th century. Renovations took place in the 19th century and again in 1999–2000.

   3.6 km · church in Mamhilad, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Panteg cemetery

   Panteg Cemetery is one of the four principal cemeteries in the borough of Torfaen, Wales, the other three being at Blaenavon, Llwyncelyn and Cwmbran. It covers an area of approximately 20 acres.

   4 km · cemetery in Great Britain · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Dog Stone

    The Dog Stone, on Mynydd Farteg, a subsidiary top of Coity Mountain, near the village of Abersychan, Torfaen, Wales, is a memorial, dating from 1864, to "Carlo", a Red setter. It is a Grade II listed structure.

    3.9 km · memorial in Abersychan, Torfaen · Wikipedia

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Getting to Abersychan

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 41 km · Bristol (BRS), 45 km · Birmingham (BHX), 121 km

Stations

Llanhilleth railway station, 6 km · Pontypool and New Inn railway station, 4.3 km · Little Mill Junction railway station, 4.7 km · Panteg and Griffithstown railway station, 5.1 km · Abertillery railway station, 5.5 km

• Cardiff → Abersychan

  29 km · quickest by road, 1h · £3.5–4.5
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• Bristol → Abersychan

  44 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Abersychan

  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £14–19
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