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Penmark

Penmark is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales.

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The place

Penmark is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. The village is a parish and is a linear village. It has a parish church along the main road running through the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Penmark

7 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
    Fonmon Castle

    Fonmon Castle is a fortified medieval castle near the village of Fonmon in the Vale of Glamorgan and a Grade I listed building. The castle's gardens are designated Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

    1.3 km · castle near Fonmon, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Orchard Castle

    East Orchard Castle is a ruined building near St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, whose remains date mainly from the 14th century.

    3.1 km · ruined manor house near St Athan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Porthkerry Viaduct

    Porthkerry Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The viaduct was designed and engineered by James Szlumper and William Szlumper, and was contracted to the Pethick Brothers to be built in the late nineteenth century in order to carry the Vale of Glamorgan Railway between Tondu via Coity Junction Bridgend and Barry Docks.

    3.2 km · grade II listed bridge in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Cadoc's Church

    St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan is a church in Llancarfan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It dates from the 13th century and has been a Grade I listed building since 28 January 1963.

    1.5 km · church in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lidmore

    Lidmore or Lydmore is a small hamlet and farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. It is located just off the A4226 road, to the northwest of Highlight Park in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and in close proximity to Brynhill Golf Club.

    3.7 km · Grade II listed building in Vale of Glamorgan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Blue Anchor Inn

    The Blue Anchor Inn is a Grade II* listed inn in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

    3.2 km · Public house in Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nant Whitton Woodlands

    Nant Whitton Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The site is a narrow strip of woodland on a Liassic limestone slope in the Vale of Glamorgan.

    2.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK · 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 Penmark

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 2 km · Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Birmingham (BHX), 160 km
Stations
Cardiff Airport, 1.8 km · Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station, 2.7 km · Aberthaw High Level railway station, 3.3 km · Aberthaw Low Level railway station, 3.4 km
  • Bristol → Penmark
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • London → Penmark
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Penmark
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Penmark

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 Penmark. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    164 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    473 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    513 km

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

Around it

Next door to Penmark

Penmark is 14 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rhoosevillage and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.3 km
  • Llancarfanvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales1.1 km
  • Llancadlevillage in Wales2.2 km
  • Moultonhamlet in Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Aberthawvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK3.2 km
  • Boys Villagea village located in Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom3.6 km