Blaenavon
Worth seeing in and around Blaenavon
5 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.
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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 Blaenavon
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Bristol (BRS), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 119 km
- Stations
- Blaenavon Low Level railway station, 400 m · Blaenavon High Level railway station, 600 m · Varteg railway station, 3.2 km · Whistle Inn Halt railway station, 2.5 km · Big Pit Halt railway station, 1.3 km
- Cardiff → Blaenavon33 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £4–5
- Bristol → Blaenavon49 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Blaenavon113 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
- 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 Blaenavon
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 Blaenavon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Blaenavon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Blaenavon
Blaenavon is 33 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Vartegvillage in Torfaen, Wales, UK3.2 km
- Cwmavonhamlet in Torfaen in south east Wales3.3 km
- Forge Sidevillage in Wales800 m
- Garn-yr-erwvillage in Torfaen, Wales2 km