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Bonvilston

Bonvilston is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Bonvilston
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The place

Bonvilston is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The village is situated on the A48 about four miles east of Cowbridge and near the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. The population in 2011 was 392.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bonvilston

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.

  1. 01
    Coedarhydyglyn

    Coedarhydyglyn or Coedriglan, formerly Old Coedarhydyglyn, is a private Grade I listed neo-classical regency villa and estate on the western rim of Cardiff, less than half a mile from Culverhouse Cross, southeast Wales. It is accessed via the A48 road between Cardiff and St.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed country house in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nant Whitton Woodlands

    Nant Whitton Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The site is a narrow strip of woodland on a Liassic limestone slope in the Vale of Glamorgan.

    2.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Cowbridge Town Hall
  2. 02
    Cowbridge Physic Garden

    Herbal garden created in 2004 with high stone walls, parts of which date to the 13th century.

  3. 03
    St Quintins Castle
  4. 04
    Beaupre Castle

    Late 13th century building with Tudor additions that make it appear more manor than castle.

From Wikivoyage: Bonvilston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Penny Farthing Cafe &

    54 High Street,.

  2. 02
    The Market Place Restaurant

    66 High St.

  3. 03
    Aubrey Arms

    Swansea Road, Bonvilston (A48),.

From Wikivoyage: Bonvilston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bonvilston

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 7 km · Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Birmingham (BHX), 156 km
  • Bristol → Bonvilston
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • London → Bonvilston
    223 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £23–31
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bonvilston
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bonvilston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.

From Wikivoyage: Cardiff, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    97 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    166 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    472 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    473 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    508 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bonvilston

Bonvilston is 12 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.