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Colwyn

Colwyn is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The place

Colwyn is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Colwyn had a population of 2,474.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Colwyn

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
    Bartram's Garden

    Bartram's Garden is a 45-acre public garden and National Historic Landmark in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, situated on the banks of the Tidal Schuylkill River. Founded in 1728 by botanist John Bartram, it is the oldest botanical garden to survive in North America.

    4 km · historic house in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Fort Beversreede

    Fort Beversreede was a Dutch-built palisaded factorij located near the confluence of the Schuylkill River and the Delaware River. It was an outpost of the colony of New Netherland, which was centered on its capital, New Amsterdam in present-day Manhattan, New York City, on the North River, now the Hudson River.

    3.9 km · fort in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Eden Cemetery

    Eden Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established June 20, 1902, and is the oldest existing black owned cemetery in the United States.

    2 km · cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Darby Free Library

    Darby Free Library is a public library at 1001 Main Street in Darby Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Founded as the Darby Library Company in 1743 – just 12 years after Benjamin Franklin organized the Library Company of Philadelphia – it remains one of the oldest libraries in the United States.

    1.2 km · free public library in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Darby Meeting

    The Darby Meeting or Darby Friends Meeting House is located in Darby, Pennsylvania. The first recorded minutes of the meeting are dated July 2, 1684, not long after William Penn landed in nearby Chester to establish the colony of Pennsylvania.

    1.2 km · historic church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Philomena's Church (Lansdowne)

    The St. Philomena Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

    3.2 km · Roman Catholic church in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum

    The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is an automotive museum located at 6825 Norwitch Drive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum's collection consists of approximately 75 racing sports cars and has been assembled over more than 50 years by Frederick A. Simeone, a retired neurosurgeon and native of Philadelphia.

    2.3 km · automobile museum in Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Q50396154

    St. James Kingsessing, commonly called "Old Swedes", is an historic church located at 68th Street and Woodland Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

    1.6 km · Episcopalian church in Philadelphia, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    George C. Platt Bridge

    The George C. Platt Memorial Bridge is a through truss bridge that carries PA 291 over the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was opened to traffic in 1951, replacing a swing bridge to the south which carried Penrose Ferry Road across the river.

    3.9 km · bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Holy Cross Cemetery

    Holy Cross Cemetery is an active cemetery owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia located in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Established in 1890, Holy Cross was operated by the Archdiocese until 2014 when it turned over the care of its 13 cemeteries to StoneMor Inc.

    2 km · cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia

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Getting to Colwyn

Airports
Philadelphia (PHL), 5 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 126 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 146 km
Stations
MacDade Boulevard, 2.4 km · Philadelphia International Airport stations, 4 km · Angora, 3.7 km · Angora Loop, 3.5 km · Mount Moriah, 2.3 km
  • New York → Colwyn
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · $13–18
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  • Newark → Colwyn
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $12–17
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  • Baltimore → Colwyn
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $12–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colwyn

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
  • Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
  • Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
  • Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.

From Wikivoyage: Philadelphia, 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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  3. 03
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  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

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Around it

Next door to Colwyn

Colwyn is 9 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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