Gilfach Goch
Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village mostly in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, near the larger community of Tonyrefail.
Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village mostly in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, near the larger community of Tonyrefail. Some areas in the North Western part of the village lie within Bridgend County Borough. It is situated in the Cwm Ogwr Fach between the Cwm Ogwr Fawr to the west and the Cwm Rhondda to the east.
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Worth seeing in and around Gilfach Goch
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.
- 01Mynydd Maendy
Mynydd Maendy is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales, to the southwest of Tonyrefail. As with the Maindee district of Newport, the name derives from the Welsh maen dy meaning "stone house".
2.5 km · hill (301m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia - 02Daren y Dimbath
Daren y Dimbath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bridgend, south Wales.
2.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gilfach Goch
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 23 km · Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 152 km
- Stations
- Dinas Rhondda railway station, 3.8 km · Tonypandy railway station, 3.5 km
- Bristol → Gilfach Goch63 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Gilfach Goch146 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £18–23
- London → Gilfach Goch232 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £24–32
- 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 Goch
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 Goch. 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.
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Next door to Gilfach Goch
Gilfach Goch is 24 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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