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Maesycwmmer

Maesycwmmer is a village, community and electoral ward in the centre of Caerphilly County Borough in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

Maesycwmmer
Maesycwmmer · Geoffrey Skelsey
The place

Maesycwmmer is a village, community and electoral ward in the centre of Caerphilly County Borough in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Maesycwmmer

2 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
    Gelli-groes Mill

    Gelligroes Mill is a water-powered corn mill in Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly county borough, South Wales, designated as a Grade II* listed building in 1962. The mill is equipped with an overshot wheel with a cast iron frame and wooden buckets.

    2.3 km · Grade II* listed building in Caerphilly · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Catwg's Church

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

    3.2 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.

Go there

Getting to Maesycwmmer

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 29 km · Bristol (BRS), 45 km · Birmingham (BHX), 135 km
Stations
Ystrad Mynach railway station, 1.3 km · Hengoed railway station, 600 m · Pengam railway station, 3.2 km · Q85747655, 3.2 km · Maesycwmmer railway station, 400 m
  • Bristol → Maesycwmmer
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Maesycwmmer
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
  • London → Maesycwmmer
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · £23–30
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Maesycwmmer

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 Maesycwmmer. 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

    113 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    171 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    471 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    491 km

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

Around it

Next door to Maesycwmmer

Maesycwmmer is 18 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.