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Llancaiach

Llancaiach is a hamlet just north of the village of Nelson, Caerphilly, Wales.

Llancaiach
Llancaiach · Richard Szwejkowski
The place

Llancaiach is a hamlet just north of the village of Nelson, Caerphilly, Wales. It is close to Llancaiach Fawr Manor, a Tudor manor house and living history museum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llancaiach

One place 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
    St Catwg's Church

    St Catwg's Church, Gelligaer, is a listed place of worship in the community of Gelligaer in Caerphilly, South Wales.

    2.4 km · church in Gelligaer, Caerphilly, 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 Llancaiach

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 29 km · Bristol (BRS), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 137 km
Stations
Abercynon railway station, 3.5 km · Ystrad Mynach railway station, 3.5 km · Quakers Yard railway station, 2.7 km · Pengam railway station, 4 km · Abercynon North railway station, 3.3 km
  • Bristol → Llancaiach
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llancaiach
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–22
  • London → Llancaiach
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llancaiach

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    110 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    175 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    453 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    466 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    488 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llancaiach

Llancaiach is 21 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.