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Coed-Ely

Coed-Ely or Coedely is a small village located to the south of Tonyrefail in south Wales and is located in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Coed-Ely
Coed-Ely · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Coed-Ely or Coedely is a small village located to the south of Tonyrefail in south Wales and is located in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf. The name Coed-Ely is a derivative of the Welsh words Coed-Elái which can be loosely translated into English as Ely Woods.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coed-Ely

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
    Llantrisant Castle

    Castle in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church Of St Illtyd, St Gwynno And St Dyfodwg

    Church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mynydd Maendy

    Hill (301m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Llanharan House

    Building in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Royal Mint Museum

    Numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, United Kingdom

    2.2 km · 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 Coed-Ely

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 19 km · Bristol (BRS), 52 km · Birmingham (BHX), 151 km
Stations
Llanharan railway station, 3.2 km
  • Bristol → Coed-Ely
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Coed-Ely
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–23
  • London → Coed-Ely
    221 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coed-Ely

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is an international airport at Cardiff and a small airport serving private planes at Swansea There are regular car ferry services from Ireland to Fishguard and Pembroke.

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    97 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    462 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    496 km

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

Around it

Next door to Coed-Ely

Coed-Ely is 19 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Llantrisanttown and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.5 km
  • Llanharanvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.7 km
  • Tonyrefailvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK2.6 km
  • Talbot Greenvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.6 km
  • Brynnavillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.7 km
  • Ynysmaerdyvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK2.1 km