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Dinas Rhondda

Dinas is a village near Tonypandy in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

Dinas Rhondda
Dinas Rhondda · Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
The place

Dinas is a village near Tonypandy in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Dinas is often referred to as Dinas Rhondda to avoid confusion with Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan. The word dinas in Modern Welsh means "city", but here it means "hill fort".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dinas Rhondda

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
    Rhondda Heritage Park

    Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery.

    3.1 km · tourist attraction and museum in Trehafod, Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Craig Pont Rhondda

    Craig Pont Rhondda is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Llwynypia, Rhondda, south Wales. The Countryside Council for Wales states that the site has been categorised as a Site of Special Interest because it "...is the largest remaining broadleaved woodland in the valley of the Rhondda Fawr.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mynydd y Glyn

    Mynydd y Glyn is a mountain in South Wales, between the towns of Pontypridd and Tonyrefail. It has a height above sea level of 377 metres.

    3.3 km · hill (377m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Anne's Church, Ynyshir

    St Anne's Church, Ynyshir is located in the Welsh village of Ynyshir in the Benefice of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley. It dates from the 1880s.

    1.7 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Stephen's Church

    St Stephen's Church is a Church in Wales parish church in Ystrad Rhondda, Wales, within the Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough. Built between 1895 and 1896, the church opened in May 1896.

    3.6 km · church in Ystrad Rhondda, 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.

Go there

Getting to Dinas Rhondda

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 148 km
Stations
Ystrad Rhondda railway station, 3.7 km · Llwynypia railway station, 2.2 km · Dinas Rhondda railway station, 500 m · Tonypandy railway station, 1.3 km · Trehafod railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Dinas Rhondda
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dinas Rhondda
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–23
  • London → Dinas Rhondda
    229 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dinas Rhondda

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 Dinas Rhondda. 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

    99 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    181 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    459 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    490 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dinas Rhondda

Dinas Rhondda is 23 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tonypandytown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK1.4 km
  • Llwynypiavillage in Wales2.1 km
  • Porthvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, south Wales1.6 km
  • Trealawvillage in Wales1.5 km
  • Tonyrefailvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.9 km
  • Tylorstownvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.4 km