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Lavernock

Lavernock is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast 7 miles (11 km) south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.

Lavernock
Lavernock · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lavernock is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast 7 miles (11 km) south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lavernock

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
    Cosmeston Lakes Country Park

    Cosmeston Lakes Country Park is a public country park in Wales, owned and managed by Vale of Glamorgan Council. It is situated between Penarth and Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, 7.3 miles from Cardiff.

    1.4 km · country park in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Penarth Coast

    Penarth Coast is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The coastline contains dinosaur fossils.

    1.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Augustine's Church

    St Augustine's Church is a Grade I-listed Gothic Revival nineteenth-century parish church in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

    3.8 km · church in Penarth, south Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Penarth Pier

    Penarth Pier is a Victorian era pier in the town of Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. The pier was opened in 1898 and was a popular attraction to seaside-goers at the time, who also enjoyed trips on pleasure steamers that operated from the pier.

    3.2 km · pier in Penarth, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cog Moors

    Cog Moors is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Glamorgan, south Wales.

    3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Turner House Gallery

    Turner House Gallery is an art gallery and multi-purpose cultural venue in Penarth, near Cardiff, Wales.

    3.2 km · Grade II listed building in Vale of Glamorgan. Art gallery in Penarth, south Wales · 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 Lavernock

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 12 km · Bristol (BRS), 32 km · Birmingham (BHX), 152 km
Stations
Penarth railway station, 3.2 km · Dingle Road railway station, 3.7 km · Alberta Place Halt railway station, 2.6 km
  • London → Lavernock
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h · £2.5–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lavernock
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Lavernock
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lavernock

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 Lavernock. 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

    107 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    153 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    481 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    485 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    517 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lavernock

Lavernock is 8 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Penarthtown and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales3.2 km
  • Sullyvillage in the community of Sully and Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.6 km
  • Sully and Lavernockcommunity in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK2.2 km
  • Cosmeston Medieval Villagemedieval village in south Wales1.1 km