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Pen-y-cae-mawr

Pen-y-cae-mawr is a small hamlet of two farms, Cas-Troggy and Penyrheo, above the Wentwood Forest in Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Pen-y-cae-mawr is a small hamlet of two farms, Cas-Troggy and Penyrheo, above the Wentwood Forest in Monmouthshire, Wales. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Llantrisant.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pen-y-cae-mawr

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 31 km · Cardiff (CWL), 44 km · Birmingham (BHX), 117 km
  • Cardiff → Pen-y-cae-mawr
    172 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · £20–27
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pen-y-cae-mawr
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–15
  • London → Pen-y-cae-mawr
    262 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · £28–37
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pen-y-cae-mawr

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 Pen-y-cae-mawr. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.

From Wikivoyage: Tintern, 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

    137 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    152 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

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    498 km

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

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Next door to Pen-y-cae-mawr

Pen-y-cae-mawr is 28 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.