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Penpedairheol, Caerphilly

Penpedairheol is a village situated in the Rhymney Valleys, South Wales.

The place

Penpedairheol is a village situated in the Rhymney Valleys, South Wales. It is located between Pengam, Gelligaer, Bargoed, Hengoed and Cefn Hengoed in the centre of Caerphilly borough, in the historic boundaries of Glamorgan. The translation of its names means the head of four roads.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Penpedairheol, Caerphilly

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
    St Catwg's Church

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

    800 m · church in Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Aberbargoed Grasslands

    Aberbargoed Grasslands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Rhymney Valley in Mid & South Glamorgan, South Wales. The area was designated a national nature reserve in 2012 largely due to its population of marsh fritillary butterflies.

    2.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest 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 Penpedairheol, Caerphilly

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 31 km · Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 134 km
Stations
Ystrad Mynach railway station, 3.2 km · Hengoed railway station, 2.8 km · Pengam railway station, 900 m · Bargoed railway station, 2.7 km · Gilfach Fargoed railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Penpedairheol, Caerphilly
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Penpedairheol, Caerphilly
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
  • London → Penpedairheol, Caerphilly
    197 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Penpedairheol, Caerphilly

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 Penpedairheol, Caerphilly. 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

    174 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    452 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    488 km

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Around it

Next door to Penpedairheol, Caerphilly

Penpedairheol, Caerphilly is 22 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.