Cwmavon, Torfaen
Cwmavon is a hamlet about 2 miles south of Blaenavon and 4 miles north of Pontypool.
Cwmavon is a hamlet about 2 miles south of Blaenavon and 4 miles north of Pontypool. The hamlet is part of the community of Abersychan in the county borough of Torfaen in south east Wales, and is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Cwmavon, Torfaen
3 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.
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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.
Getting to Cwmavon, Torfaen
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 44 km · Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 119 km
- Stations
- Blaenavon Low Level railway station, 2.7 km · Abersychan and Talywain railway station, 2.8 km · Abersychan Low Level railway station, 3.2 km · Big Pit Halt railway station, 4 km · Blaenavon High Level railway station, 2.6 km
- Cardiff → Cwmavon, Torfaen31 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £3.5–5
- Bristol → Cwmavon, Torfaen46 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cwmavon, Torfaen113 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cwmavon, Torfaen
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 Cwmavon, Torfaen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Cwmavon, Torfaen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Cwmavon, Torfaen
Cwmavon, Torfaen is 31 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Cwmavonhamlet in Torfaen in south east Wales400 m
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