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Pendoylan

Pendoylan is a rural village and community (parish) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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The place

Pendoylan is a rural village and community (parish) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The village has won many awards in Best Kept Village competitions and contains 27 entries in the council's County Treasures database, 13 of which are listed buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pendoylan

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
    Hensol Castle

    Hensol Castle is a castellated mansion in the Gothic Revival style dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, now a wedding and conference venue for The Vale Resort. It is located north of Clawdd Coch and Tredodridge in the community of Pendoylan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

    2.6 km · mansion in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church Of St Donat

    St Donat's Church is a Grade I listed church in Welsh St Donats, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 28 January 1963.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Castle Farmhouse

    Castle Farmhouse is a medieval farmhouse in St Georges super Ely, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Its origins are as part of the Norman castle of the Le Flemings, after which it declined in status, first to a manor house, and subsequently to a farmstead.

    3.9 km · farmhouse in St Georges Super Ely, Glamorgan; converted from medieval castle · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St-y-Nyll

    St-y-Nyll is a large detached house near the village of St. Brides-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan.

    4 km · Grade II listed building in Vale of Glamorgan. In a commanding position on a south facing slope N of St Bride's-super-Ely, close to the listed windmill to E, surrounded by gardens and reached by a drive. · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Miskin Manor

    Miskin Manor is a Victorian manor house built in 1864 in a Tudor style, situated in the village of Miskin in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. The estate was owned by the Williams family including Rhys Rhys-Williams for many years who were descended from the Welsh bard David Williams.

    3.6 km · Grade II listed building in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Located in extensive grounds SE of Miskin village and reached by private drive on the W side on the A4119. · 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 Pendoylan

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 9 km · Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 154 km
  • Bristol → Pendoylan
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–10
  • London → Pendoylan
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £23–30
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pendoylan
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pendoylan

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 Pendoylan. 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

    97 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    168 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    470 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    470 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    506 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pendoylan

Pendoylan is 12 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.