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Garnswllt

Garnswllt is a rural village in the City and County of Swansea, Wales falling within the Mawr ward.

The place

Garnswllt is a rural village in the City and County of Swansea, Wales falling within the Mawr ward. It lies in the far north of Swansea near the border with Carmarthenshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Garnswllt

6 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
    Gellimanwydd Chapel

    Gellimanwydd Chapel, also known as the Christian Temple, is an Independent chapel in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Services at Gellimanwydd are conducted in the Welsh language.

    3.3 km · chapel in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ammanford Town Hall

    Ammanford Town Hall is a municipal building located on Iscennen Street in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire in Wales. The structure is currently used as the offices and meeting place of Ammanford Town Council.

    3.5 km · municipal building in Carmarthenshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints Church, Ammanford

    All Saints Church, Ammanford is an Anglican parish church in the town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was erected between 1911 and 1915 by W. D. Jenkins of Llandeilo.

    3.7 km · church in Carmarthenshire, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mynydd y Gwair

    Mynydd y Gwair is a mountain in Swansea, Wales. Mynydd y Gwair is 373 m high.

    4 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Amman Valley Railway

    The Amman Valley Railway Society is situated near the former Gwaun Cae Gurwen branch line, that runs alongside the River Amman, some 10 miles north of Swansea in west Wales. Its primary focus is to construct Swansea 9 Lines, an eco-friendly tram system to the heart of Swansea and the surrounding areas.

    1.8 km · heritage railway in the UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bethany Chapel

    Bethany was a Calvinistic Methodist/ Presbyterian Church of Wales chapel in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, from 1881 to 2023. Services were conducted in Welsh, despite some members of the original founding committee proposing an English language chapel.

    3.1 km · Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Ammanford · 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.

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Getting to Garnswllt

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Bristol (BRS), 98 km · Birmingham (BHX), 172 km
Stations
Ammanford railway station, 3.6 km · Pantyffynnon railway station, 1.8 km · Ammanford Colliery Halt railway station, 3.6 km
  • Cardiff → Garnswllt
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–10
  • Bristol → Garnswllt
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Garnswllt
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Garnswllt

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPontardawe lies at the crossroads of the A4067 road, which runs the length of the Swansea Valley and on to Sennybridge on the A40, and the A474 from Briton Ferry and Neath to Ammanford.

From Wikivoyage: Clydach and Pontardawe, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    80 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    222 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    417 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    431 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    466 km

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

Around it

Next door to Garnswllt

Garnswllt is 16 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Betwsvillage and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales2.8 km
  • Tycroesvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK2.7 km
  • Pantyffynnonvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK1.7 km
  • Pontammanvillage in Wales3.9 km