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Bettws, Bridgend

Bettws, is a small ex-mining and farming village in the South Wales Valleys in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales.

The place

Bettws, is a small ex-mining and farming village in the South Wales Valleys in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bettws, Bridgend

One place 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
    Blackmill Woodlands

    Blackmill Woodlands is woodland which is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation near Blackmill in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales, formerly it was in Glamorgan.

    3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in 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 Bettws, Bridgend

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 160 km
Stations
Tondu railway station, 2.4 km · Sarn railway station, 3.4 km · Llangynwyd railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Bettws, Bridgend
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bettws, Bridgend
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £18–24
  • London → Bettws, Bridgend
    240 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · £25–33
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bettws, Bridgend

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIrish Ferries operates a Rosslare (Ireland) to Pembroke ferry route.
  • Get inStenaLine operates a Rosslare to Fishguard ferry route.
  • Get aroundArriva trains operate suburban and rural train services from Swansea station to Llansamlet, Skewen, Baglan, Briton Ferry, Gowerton, Bynea, Llangennech, Pontarddulais, Pantyfynnon and Ammanford.

From Wikivoyage: Glamorgan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    187 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    457 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    492 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bettws, Bridgend

Bettws, Bridgend is 25 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.