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Capel Dewi, Faenor

Capel Dewi is a hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Aberystwyth.

The place

Capel Dewi is a hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Aberystwyth. It is one of two settlements called Capel Dewi in the county, the other being Capel Dewi near Llandysul.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Capel Dewi, Faenor

10 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
    National Library of Wales

    The National Library of Wales is the national legal deposit library of Wales and a Welsh Government sponsored body, located in Aberystwyth. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million books and periodicals, and the largest collections of archives, portraits, maps, and photographic images in Wales.

    3.7 km · Welsh archive and research library · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Aberystwyth University

    Aberystwyth University is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales.

    3.4 km · university in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ystrad Peithyll

    Ystrad Peithyll is the remains of a small 12th-century motte-and-bailey castle on the River Peithyll, near Penrhyn-coch in northern Ceredigion, Wales. The castle was attacked and destroyed by followers of Gruffydd ap Rhys in the early 12th century.

    2.3 km · remains of a small 12th-century castle in Ceredigion, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Padarn's Church

    Saint Padarn's Church is a parish church of the Church in Wales, and the largest mediaeval church in mid-Wales. It is at Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth, in Ceredigion, Wales.

    3.4 km · church in Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gogerddan Mansion

    Gogerddan was an estate near to Trefeurig and the most important in what was then the county of Cardiganshire, Wales. Owned since at least the fifteenth century by the Pryse family, the main house, called Plas Gogerddan, still stands and is a Grade II listed building.

    1.3 km · mansion house in Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Aberystwyth Arts Centre

    Aberystwyth Arts Centre is an arts centre in Wales, located on Aberystwyth University's Penglais campus. One of the largest in Wales, it comprises a theatre, concert hall, studio and cinema, as well as four gallery spaces and cafés, bars, and shops.

    3.3 km · arts centre of the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences

    The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences is an institute of Aberystwyth University. It is committed to ensuring humanity can sustainably produce the food, feed and plant-based industrial resources it needs.

    3.5 km · research institute · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nanteos

    Nanteos is an 18th-century former country house in Llanbadarn-y-Creuddyn, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. A Grade I listed building, it is now a country house hotel.

    3.9 km · country house hotel in Llanbadarn-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Coleg Ceredigion

    Coleg Ceredigion, formerly known as Aberystwyth Technical College and later as Aberystwyth College of Further Education, is a bilingual further education college in Ceredigion, Wales. It has two campuses in the two largest towns in Ceredigion, namely Aberystwyth ) and Cardigan ).

    2.8 km · further education college in Aberystwyth · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Rheidol Shingles and Backwaters

    This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Ceredigion Area of Search.

    1.9 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.

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Getting to Capel Dewi, Faenor

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 123 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 128 km · Bristol (BRS), 146 km
Stations
Capel Bangor railway station, 3.2 km · Glanyrafon railway station, 2.5 km · Llanbadarn railway station, 3.6 km · Bow Street railway station, 2.2 km
  • Cardiff → Capel Dewi, Faenor
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Capel Dewi, Faenor
    173 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · £21–28
  • Bristol → Capel Dewi, Faenor
    133 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £18–23
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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 Capel Dewi, Faenor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo Holyhead there are ferries from Dublin and Dún Laoghaire; and to Fishguard from Rosslare.
  • Go nextPennine Way walk running the spine of England from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders Coast To Coast Walk a 190-mile long-distance walking trail in England which crosses the North of England from St Bees in Cumbria on the West coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire on the East coast.

From Wikivoyage: Wales Coast Path, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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