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Gabalfa

Gabalfa is a district and community in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

Gabalfa
Gabalfa · Jeremy Segrott from Cardiff, Wales, UK
The place

Gabalfa is a district and community in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is characterised by a four-lane flyover road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets the A470 road which leads from Cardiff to northern Wales, and the A469 road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Gabalfa

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 15 km · Bristol (BRS), 36 km · Birmingham (BHX), 146 km
  • London → Gabalfa
    212 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £22–29
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Gabalfa
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £15–21
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gabalfa
    213 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £23–31
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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 Gabalfa

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.

From Wikivoyage: Cardiff, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    108 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    160 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    471 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    479 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    507 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gabalfa

Gabalfa is 3 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.