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Llantwit Fardre

Llantwit Fardre is a large village and community situated on the A473, Pontypridd to Bridgend, road near the Welsh towns of Pontypridd and Llantrisant.

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The place

Llantwit Fardre is a large village and community situated on the A473, Pontypridd to Bridgend, road near the Welsh towns of Pontypridd and Llantrisant. Llantwit Fardre is also the name of the old parish and the community area that takes in the villages of Llantwit Fardre, Tonteg and Church Village. It is in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llantwit Fardre

5 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
    Llantrisant Castle

    Llantrisant Castle is a ruined castle in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, Wales. The ruins are on a good elevation, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country.

    3.3 km · castle in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church Of St Illtyd, St Gwynno And St Dyfodwg

    Llantrisant Church is located in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, Wales. Built within a short distance of Llantrisant Castle, it was originally in the Norman style of architecture.

    3.4 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.7 km · numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Upper Church Village

    Upper Church Village is a district of the larger village and electoral ward of Church Village, within the community of Llantwit Fardre in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is located to the north and west of the villages of Llantwit Fardre, Church Village and Tonteg.

    1.6 km · area in Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg

    Ysgol Garth Olwg, English Garth Olwg School is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in the village of Church Village near Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It was the first Welsh language comprehensive school in the south of Wales.

    1 km · comprehensive school in Church Village, 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.

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Getting to Llantwit Fardre

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 18 km · Bristol (BRS), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 147 km
Stations
Treforest railway station, 3.9 km · Treforest Estate railway station, 3.3 km · Creigiau railway station, 3.7 km · Beddau Halt railway station, 1.5 km · Tonteg Halt railway station, 2.4 km
  • Bristol → Llantwit Fardre
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llantwit Fardre
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–22
  • London → Llantwit Fardre
    222 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llantwit Fardre

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 Llantwit Fardre. 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

    102 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    172 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    462 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    498 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llantwit Fardre

Llantwit Fardre is 14 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Llantrisanttown and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.5 km
  • Beddauvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales1.6 km
  • Church Villagevillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK1.6 km
  • Efail Isafvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK1.2 km
  • Creigiauvillage in Cardiff, Wales3.9 km
  • Hawthornvillage Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.2 km