Clydach
Clydach is a village and community in Swansea, Wales, within the Clydach ward and the Llangyfelach parish.
Clydach is a village and community in Swansea, Wales, within the Clydach ward and the Llangyfelach parish. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Swansea city centre. In 2011, the population was 7,503. Welsh is the first language of 24 per cent of the population and both Welsh and English language schools are available. The village lies close to the M4 motorway which can be accessed via the bypass or old road via Ynystawe.
The community includes part of the village of Glais.
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Worth seeing in and around Clydach
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.
- 01Tabernacle Welsh Independent Chapel
The Tabernacle Chapel, also known as Libanus Chapel, is a Grade I listed chapel on Woodfield Street in Morriston, Swansea, Wales.
3.1 km · Independent chapel in Morriston · Wikipedia - 02Gellionnen Unitarian Chapel
Gellionnen Chapel is a Unitarian place of worship near Pontardawe, South Wales, United Kingdom. The chapel was first built in 1692 by Protestant dissenters, becoming Unitarian in the late 18th century.
3.9 km · Unitarian chapel in Pontardawe · Wikipedia
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Getting to Clydach
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 51 km · Bristol (BRS), 89 km · Birmingham (BHX), 170 km
- Stations
- Llansamlet railway station, 3.6 km
- Cardiff → Clydach55 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
- Bristol → Clydach94 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–16
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Clydach163 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £19–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Clydach
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 Clydach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPontardawe lies at the crossroads of the A4067 road, which runs the length of the Swansea Valley and on to Sennybridge on the A40, and the A474 from Briton Ferry and Neath to Ammanford.
From Wikivoyage: Clydach and Pontardawe, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Next door to Clydach
Clydach is 8 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Birchgrovevillage and community in Swansea, Wales3 km
- Llangyfelachvillage and community in Swansea, Wales, UK3.9 km
- Mynydd-Bachsuburb and community in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Llansamletcommunity and suburban district of Swansea, Wales3.6 km
- Glaisvillage in Swansea, Wales2.2 km
- Craig Cefn Parcvillage in Swansea, Wales, UK2.2 km