Garndiffaith
Garndiffaith is a village located in Torfaen, south east Wales.
Garndiffaith is a village located in Torfaen, south east Wales. It is a small rural area situated between Talywain and Varteg, three miles north of the town of Pontypool and 3.5 miles south of the town of Blaenavon. The village is now part of the Abersychan suburb of Pontypool which also includes Cwmavon, Pentwyn, Talywain, Varteg, and Victoria Village.
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Worth seeing in and around Garndiffaith
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.
- 01Garndiffaith Viaduct
Garndiffaith Viaduct is a largely stone-built railway viaduct that formerly carried the former Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway over the valley of the Avon Ffrwd at the lower end of the village of Garndiffaith, Torfaen in South Wales. It is Grade II listed.
300 m · Welsh viaduct · Wikipedia - 02Dog Stone
The Dog Stone, on Mynydd Farteg, a subsidiary top of Coity Mountain, near the village of Abersychan, Torfaen, Wales, is a memorial, dating from 1864, to "Carlo", a Red setter. It is a Grade II listed structure.
2.5 km · memorial in Abersychan, Torfaen · Wikipedia - 03Persondy
Persondy, Mamhilad, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the late 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.9 km · house in Mamhilad, Monmouthshire · Wikipedia
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Getting to Garndiffaith
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 42 km · Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 120 km
- Stations
- Abersychan and Talywain railway station, 700 m · Abersychan Low Level railway station, 1.3 km · Blaenavon High Level railway station, 4 km · Varteg railway station, 1.4 km
- Cardiff → Garndiffaith29 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3.5–5
- Bristol → Garndiffaith45 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Garndiffaith115 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Garndiffaith
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 Garndiffaith. 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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Next door to Garndiffaith
Garndiffaith is 29 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pontypooltown in Torfaen, south-east Wales4 km
- Vartegvillage in Torfaen, Wales, UK1.4 km
- Cwmavonhamlet in Torfaen in south east Wales1.6 km
- Snatchwoodvillage in Wales1.7 km
- Talywainvillage in Torfaen, Wales, UK500 m