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Penywaun

Penywaun is a community, electoral ward and north-western suburb of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

Penywaun
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The place

Penywaun is a community, electoral ward and north-western suburb of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. At the 2011 census, the population of the ward was registered as 3,063.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Penywaun

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 39 km · Bristol (BRS), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 143 km
  • Bristol → Penywaun
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Penywaun
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £16–22
  • London → Penywaun
    233 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · £25–33
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Penywaun

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 Penywaun. 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

    103 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    191 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    441 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    451 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    476 km

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

Around it

Next door to Penywaun

Penywaun is 34 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.