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Coychurch

Coychurch is a small village that sits between Pencoed and Bridgend in Wales, bordering with Bridgend Industrial Estate, where many residents are employed.

The place

Coychurch is a small village that sits between Pencoed and Bridgend in Wales, bordering with Bridgend Industrial Estate, where many residents are employed. It is part of the community of Coychurch Lower.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coychurch

8 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
    Newcastle Castle

    Newcastle Castle is a medieval castle located on Newcastle Hill, Newcastle, overlooking the town centre of Bridgend in Glamorgan, South Wales. It was originally believed to date from 1106 when a ringwork was created at the site by the Norman baron Robert Fitzhamon.

    3.9 km · castle in Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade I listed church in Colwinston, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963.

    3.4 km · church in Colwinston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brewery Field

    The Brewery Field, currently called The Electric Brewery Field for sponsorship reasons, is an 8,000 capacity sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales.

    3.9 km · sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John's Hospice

    St John's House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Wales town of Bridgend, the oldest habitable building in the town. The full history of the building is unclear due to gaps in documentation.

    3.8 km · listed building in Bridgend, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bridgend College

    Bridgend College is a further education college based in Bridgend, Wales. Founded in 1928 as the Bridgend Mining and Technical Institute, the college today has four campuses in Bridgend, Pencoed, Queens Road and Maesteg.

    3 km · further education college in Bridgend, Bridgend, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ewenny Priory House

    Ewenny Priory House is a privately owned Georgian mansion located immediately to the south of Ewenny Priory church, at Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Originally built in 1545 it was rebuilt in the early 1800s.

    2.9 km · building in Ewenny, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Canna's Church

    St Canna Church is a church in Llangan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Its churchyard cross is a Grade I listed building, listed on 22 July 2003.

    2 km · church in Llangan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Coedymwstwr Woodlands

    Coedymwstwr Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located between Coychurch and Pencoed in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales. The woodlands is home to Coed-y-Mwstwr cave, a caving system that has been theorised as a hiding space used by Owain Glyndŵr.

    2.5 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 Coychurch

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 17 km · Bristol (BRS), 58 km · Birmingham (BHX), 162 km
Stations
Bridgend railway station, 3.3 km · Pencoed railway station, 3.3 km · Bridgend bus station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Coychurch
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
  • London → Coychurch
    236 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Coychurch
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–23
  • From anywhere
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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 Coychurch

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    180 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    458 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    466 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    501 km

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

Around it

Next door to Coychurch

Coychurch is 24 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ewennyvillage and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales3.8 km
  • Colwinstonvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan3.3 km
  • Bracklacommunity and suburb in Bridgend, Wales2.2 km
  • Llanganvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.2 km
  • Corntownvillage in Wales2.7 km
  • Llamphavillage in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales3.5 km