Lower Machen
Lower Machen is a small hamlet at the very western edge of the city of Newport, South Wales.
Lower Machen is a small hamlet at the very western edge of the city of Newport, South Wales. It is adjacent to the A468 road, south-east of Machen in the county borough of Caerphilly. Both settlements lie within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Lower Machen
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.
- 01Castell Machen
Castell Meredydd, also called Castell Machen, was a castle in Gwynllwg, Wales in the 13th century, long since ruined.
800 m · ruined C13 castle in Graig, Newport, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 02Machen House
Machen House is a country house in the hamlet of Lower Machen, to the west of the city of Newport, Wales. The house was built in 1831 for the Rev.
100 m · house in Lower Machen, Newport, Wales · Wikipedia - 03Plas Machen
Plas Machen is a country house in the hamlet of Lower Machen, in Newport, Wales. The house was built in the late 15th-century and served as the seat of the Machen branch of the Morgan family of South Wales.
900 m · country house in Lower Machen, Newport, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cefn Mably House
Cefn Mably House is a mansion situated in Cefn Mably, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · historic country house in Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lower Machen
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 36 km · Birmingham (BHX), 135 km
- Stations
- Crosskeys railway station, 4 km · Risca and Pontymister railway station, 2.8 km · Rogerstone railway station, 3.7 km · Nine Mile Point railway station, 3.8 km · Risca railway station, 2.9 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Lower Machen130 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £15–20
- London → Lower Machen207 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £21–28
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lower Machen203 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £22–30
- 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 Lower Machen
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 Lower Machen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.
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Next door to Lower Machen
Lower Machen is 12 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rudryvillage and community located to the east of Caerphilly in Wales4 km
- Michaelston-y-Fedwhamlet and community in Newport, Wales3.7 km
- Machenvillage in Caerphilly, Wales, UK1.9 km
- Graigcommunity in Newport, Wales, UK3.8 km
- Risca Eastcommunity in Wales3.1 km
- Wattsvillevillage in Caerphilly, Wales4 km