Cyncoed
Cyncoed is a community in the northeast of Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

Cyncoed is a community in the northeast of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. With many properties in the area fetching over £1 million, Cyncoed is considered to have some of the highest property prices in the country. Cyncoed overlooks the city centre of Cardiff, near Roath Park, with views of the surrounding mountains.
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Worth seeing in and around Cyncoed
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.
- 01Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893.
3.7 km · public research university in Cardiff, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff, formerly known as the National Museum of Wales, is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.
3.8 km · Main site of the national museum of Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff Metropolitan University is a public university located in Cardiff, Wales. It was formerly known as the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff which was established in 1996.
3.9 km · university in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Al-Manar Centre
The al-Manar Centre is a Sunni mosque in the Cathays district of Cardiff, Wales.
3.6 km · mosque in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 05City Hall of Cardiff
City Hall is a municipal building in Cardiff, Wales, UK. It serves as Cardiff's centre of local government. It was built as part of the Cathays Park civic centre development and opened in October 1906.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Cardiff. Civic building in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 06Welsh National War Memorial
The Welsh National War Memorial is situated in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The memorial was designed by Sir Ninian Comper and unveiled on 12 June 1928 by the Prince of Wales.
3.8 km · Grade II* listed building in Cardiff. World War I and II memorial in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 07Bute Building
The Bute Building is a Cardiff University building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales. It houses the Welsh School of Architecture.
3.9 km · Grade II listed building in Cardiff. University building in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 08Wales Genocide Memorial
The Wales Genocide Memorial is a monument in the garden of the Temple of Peace in Cardiff, Wales, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide that took place in Ottoman Empire carried out by the Turkish government against the Armenian population from 1915 to 1922.
3.8 km · memorial in Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 09Crown Buildings
The Crown Buildings, which are also known as the Cathays Park Buildings, are the Welsh Government's main offices in Cardiff, Wales. The buildings were formerly used by the Welsh Office and are situated in Cathays Park.
3.7 km · Grade II listed building in Cardiff. Welsh Government offices in Cardiff · Wikipedia - 10St Margaret's Church
St Margaret's Church is a nineteenth-century Church in Wales parish church in the suburb of Roath, Cardiff, Wales. It includes the mausoleum of the Marquises of Bute.
3 km · church in Roath, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cyncoed
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 18 km · Bristol (BRS), 34 km · Birmingham (BHX), 142 km
- Stations
- Lisvane and Thornhill railway station, 3.2 km · Birchgrove railway station, 2.8 km · Llanishen railway station, 2 km · Ty Glas railway station, 2.4 km · Rhiwbina railway station, 3.5 km
- London → Cyncoed210 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £21–28
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cyncoed138 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cyncoed210 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £23–30
- 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 Cyncoed
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 Cyncoed. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.
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Next door to Cyncoed
Cyncoed is 4 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Llanrumneydistrict and community of Cardiff2.6 km
- Cathayssuburb and community in Cardiff, Wales2.9 km
- Whitchurchsuburb and community in Cardiff, Wales, UK3.9 km
- Llanishensuburb and community in Cardiff, Wales2.1 km
- Adamsdowncommunity and inner city area in Cardiff, Wales3.8 km
- Heathsuburb and community in Cardiff, Wales2.6 km