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Brackla

Brackla is a large housing estate and community in the east of Bridgend in Bridgend County Borough, Wales.

The place

Brackla is a large housing estate and community in the east of Bridgend in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. Along with the communities of Bridgend and Coychurch Lower, it makes up the town of Bridgend.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brackla

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
    Newcastle Castle

    Newcastle Castle is a medieval castle located on Newcastle Hill, Newcastle, overlooking the town centre of Bridgend in Glamorgan, South Wales. It was originally believed to date from 1106 when a ringwork was created at the site by the Norman baron Robert Fitzhamon.

    2.3 km · castle in Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brewery Field

    The Brewery Field, currently called The Electric Brewery Field for sponsorship reasons, is an 8,000 capacity sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales.

    2.1 km · sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John's Hospice

    St John's House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Wales town of Bridgend, the oldest habitable building in the town. The full history of the building is unclear due to gaps in documentation.

    2.2 km · listed building in Bridgend, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bridgend College

    Bridgend College is a further education college based in Bridgend, Wales. Founded in 1928 as the Bridgend Mining and Technical Institute, the college today has four campuses in Bridgend, Pencoed, Queens Road and Maesteg.

    2.1 km · further education college in Bridgend, Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Designer Outlet Bridgend

    The Bridgend Designer Outlet, also known as McArthurGlen Designer Outlet, is a commercial retail park and outlet store development in Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by McArthurGlen Group.

    2.8 km · shopping center in Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ewenny Priory House

    Ewenny Priory House is a privately owned Georgian mansion located immediately to the south of Ewenny Priory church, at Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Originally built in 1545 it was rebuilt in the early 1800s.

    3 km · building in Ewenny, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Coedymwstwr Woodlands

    Coedymwstwr Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located between Coychurch and Pencoed in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales. The woodlands is home to Coed-y-Mwstwr cave, a caving system that has been theorised as a hiding space used by Owain Glyndŵr.

    2.7 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.

Go there

Getting to Brackla

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 19 km · Bristol (BRS), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 162 km
Stations
Bridgend railway station, 1.8 km · Sarn railway station, 3.9 km · Wildmill railway station, 2.2 km · Pencoed railway station, 3.6 km · Bridgend bus station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Brackla
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
  • London → Brackla
    237 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brackla
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brackla

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 Brackla. 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

    86 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    182 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    456 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    464 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    499 km

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

Around it

Next door to Brackla

Brackla is 26 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.