Gilfach
Gilfach is the small district that lies between Bargoed and Pengam, situated in the Caerphilly county borough, seven miles north of Caerphilly, within the historic boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.
Gilfach is the small district that lies between Bargoed and Pengam, situated in the Caerphilly county borough, seven miles north of Caerphilly, within the historic boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. The Bargoed ward had a population of 2,062 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Gilfach
2 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.
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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.
Getting to Gilfach
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 32 km · Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 133 km
- Stations
- Bargoed railway station, 1.6 km · Gilfach Fargoed railway station, 700 m · Pengam railway station, 1 km · Hengoed railway station, 3.6 km · Brithdir railway station, 3.5 km
- Bristol → Gilfach50 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Gilfach127 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
- London → Gilfach215 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · £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 Gilfach
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 Gilfach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Gilfach – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gilfach
Gilfach is 22 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pontllanfraithvillage in Caerphilly, Wales, UK3.9 km
- Pengamvillage and community in Caerphilly, Wales1.7 km
- Penmaenvillage and community in Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Aberbargoedvillage in Wales2.1 km
- Oakdalevillage in Caerphilly, Wales3.6 km
- Markhamvillage in Caerphilly, United Kingdom3.4 km