Brynithel

Worth seeing in and around Brynithel

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.

1. 01
   St Illtyd's Motte

   St Illtyd's Motte, also known as St Illtyd Castle Mound, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in the village of Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was probably destroyed by Llywelyn the Great in the early thirteenth century and not rebuilt.

   800 m · castle in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Pen-y-fan Pond

   Pen-y-fan Pond is a man-made reservoir in South Wales built around 1794-6 as part of the engineering works for the Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire Canal. The reservoir was used to maintain the water level in the canal.

   1.8 km · reservoir in South Wales · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Illtyd's Church

   St Illtyd's Church is a deconsecrated church in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. A Grade II* listed building, it is the oldest standing building in the county borough.

   900 m · church in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   The Guardian Of The Valleys

   The Guardian is a 20 m tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen.

   1.7 km · mining memorial statue · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Crumlin Arm

   The Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire canal is part of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal network in South Wales. It connected Crumlin and its tramways to the Docks at Newport.

   2.7 km · branch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal · Wikipedia

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Getting to Brynithel

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 37 km · Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 126 km

Stations

Llanhilleth railway station, 400 m · Aberbeeg railway station, 800 m · Argoed railway station, 3.7 km · Abertillery railway station, 3 km

• Bristol → Brynithel

  47 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–9
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Brynithel

  121 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–20
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• London → Brynithel

  209 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · £22–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brynithel

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

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