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Michaelston-y-Fedw

Michaelston-y-Fedw is a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, on the borders of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county boroughs.

Michaelston-y-Fedw
Michaelston-y-Fedw · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Michaelston-y-Fedw is a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, on the borders of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county boroughs. The population in 2011 was 296.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Michaelston-y-Fedw

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
    St Mellon's Church

    St Mellons Parish Church, also previously called St Melan's church, is a Church in Wales parish church in the Diocese of Monmouth in Old St Mellons, Cardiff, Wales. It was built around the 13th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in St Mellons, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Machen 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.

    3.8 km · house in Lower Machen, Newport, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Plas 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.

    3.1 km · country house in Lower Machen, Newport, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Edeyrn's Church

    St Edeyrn's Church is a listed Anglican church within the boundary of Old St Mellons, Cardiff, though giving its name to the nearby area of Llanedeyrn.

    3.2 km · church in Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cefn Mably House

    Cefn Mably House is a mansion situated in Cefn Mably, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.

    1.8 km · historic country house in 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 Michaelston-y-Fedw

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 24 km · Bristol (BRS), 33 km · Birmingham (BHX), 136 km
Stations
Marshfield railway station, 3.8 km · Cardiff Parkway railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Michaelston-y-Fedw
    206 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £21–28
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Michaelston-y-Fedw
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–20
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Michaelston-y-Fedw
    204 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Michaelston-y-Fedw

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 Michaelston-y-Fedw. 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

    117 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    158 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    467 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    483 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    503 km

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

Around it

Next door to Michaelston-y-Fedw

Michaelston-y-Fedw is 10 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Marshfieldvillage and community in Newport, Wales2.6 km
  • Coedkernewcommunity in Newport3.9 km
  • Pentwyndistrict and community of Cardiff, Wales4 km
  • Pontprennausuburb and community in Cardiff, Wales3.7 km
  • Graigcommunity in Newport, Wales, UK3.4 km
  • Old St Mellonscommunity in Cardiff, Wales, UK2.6 km