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Llanharan

Llanharan is a village and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

Llanharan
Llanharan · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Llanharan is a village and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. As a community Llanharan takes in the neighbouring settlements of Bryncae, Brynna, Llanilid, Peterston-super-Montem and Ynysmaerdy. Llanharan thrived during the British Industrial Revolution, with several tin and coal mines in the location providing employment to the town's residents. With the decline of heavy industry in the South Wales Coalfield, Llanharan has been in economic decline, though its proximity to the M4 motorway offers its residents easy commutable access to most of South Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanharan

4 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
    Mynydd 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".

    3.9 km · hill (301m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Royal Mint Museum

    The Royal Mint Museum is a numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, which houses coins, medals, artwork and minting equipment previous owned by the Royal Mint. Although the museum is located on the same site as the Royal Mint, the mint and the museum are separate companies.

    3.9 km · numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brynna a Wern Tarw

    Brynna a Wern Tarw is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located around Brynna in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Pencoed in Bridgend, south Wales. The Countryside Council for Wales describe the area as: "Brynna a Wern Tarw is of special interest for its extensive area of mixed, species-rich lowland grassland, including significant areas of marshy and dry neutral grassland.

    2.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Llanharan House

    Llanharan House is a historic house on the outskirts of Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located off the A473 road, just east of Llanharan and is a Grade II* listed building.

    500 m · building in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 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.

Go there

Getting to Llanharan

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 17 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 154 km
Stations
Llanharan railway station, 200 m · Pontyclun railway station, 3.8 km
  • Bristol → Llanharan
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
  • London → Llanharan
    229 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £23–31
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanharan
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanharan

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    94 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    462 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    463 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    498 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llanharan

Llanharan is 19 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Llanharryvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK2.8 km
  • Pontyclunvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.9 km
  • Brynsadlervillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.7 km
  • Talbot Greenvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.8 km
  • Ynysmaerdyvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.3 km
  • Brynnavillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK1.3 km