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Boys Village

St Athan Boys' Village was a village-style holiday camp located in West Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Boys Village
Boys Village · Basile Morin
The place

St Athan Boys' Village was a village-style holiday camp located in West Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boys Village

7 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
    Fonmon Castle

    Fonmon Castle is a fortified medieval castle near the village of Fonmon in the Vale of Glamorgan and a Grade I listed building. The castle's gardens are designated Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

    2.3 km · castle near Fonmon, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Orchard Castle

    East Orchard Castle is a ruined building near St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, whose remains date mainly from the 14th century.

    900 m · ruined manor house near St Athan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Tathan's Church

    St Tathan's Church is a medieval church in St. Athan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

    1.3 km · church in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Cadoc's Church

    St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan is a church in Llancarfan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It dates from the 13th century and has been a Grade I listed building since 28 January 1963.

    3.9 km · church in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    South Wales Aviation Museum

    The South Wales Aviation Museum is an aviation museum in Bro Tathan North, St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on part of the former MOD St Athan.

    3.8 km · not for profit, aviation museum in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Blue Anchor Inn

    The Blue Anchor Inn is a Grade II* listed inn in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

    1 km · Public house in Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gileston Manor

    Gileston Manor is a manor and country house located in the small village of Gileston near St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

    900 m · Grade II* listed building in Gileston, St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, 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.

Go there

Getting to Boys Village

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 4 km · Bristol (BRS), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 163 km
Stations
Cardiff Airport, 4 km · Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station, 3.7 km · Aberthaw High Level railway station, 1 km · Aberthaw Low Level railway station, 1.1 km
  • Bristol → Boys Village
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • London → Boys Village
    227 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Boys Village
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boys Village

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    92 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

    471 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    479 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    514 km

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

Around it

Next door to Boys Village

Boys Village is 18 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rhoosevillage and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales3.4 km
  • Llancarfanvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales3.4 km
  • St Athanvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK1.4 km
  • Flemingstonvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales3.5 km
  • Llancadlevillage in Wales1.6 km
  • Eglwys Brewisvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK2.9 km