Peterston-super-Ely
Peterston-super-Ely is a village and community situated on the River Ely in the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

Peterston-super-Ely is a village and community situated on the River Ely in the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The community population at the 2011 census was 874. The community includes the hamlet of Gwern-y-Steeple.
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Worth seeing in and around Peterston-super-Ely
10 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.
- 01St Fagans National History Museum
St Fagans National Museum of History, commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.
3.4 km · Open-air museum in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Fagans Castle
St Fagans Castle is an Elizabethan mansion in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed.
3.7 km · Elizabethan manor house in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 03St Teilo's Church
St Teilo's Church is a historic building originally located at Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont near Pontarddulais and now reconstructed at St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff, Wales.
2.9 km · church re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Kennixton Farmhouse
Kennixton Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse originally built at Kennexstone, Llangennith, Gower, and currently located at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.3 km · building re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 05The Vulcan
The Vulcan Hotel is a historic hotel and public house, that was located in Adam Street in the Adamsdown suburb of Cardiff, South Wales. Scheduled for demolition in 2009, after a long public campaign to preserve what had become one of Cardiff's oldest working public houses, in 2012 it was donated to the National History Museum at St Fagans.
3.1 km · pub re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 06Pen-Rhiw Unitarian Chapel
Capel Pen Rhiw (also called Pen Rhiw Unitarian Chapel, is a Grade II listed building, originally built in 1777, on a hill overlooking Dre-fach Felindre, a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is thought to have been converted from a barn.
3.4 km · chapel rebuilt at St Fagan's Museum · Wikipedia - 07Copthorne Hotel, Cardiff
Copthorne Hotel Cardiff—Caerdydd is a four star hotel in Culverhouse Cross, a western suburb of Cardiff, capital of Wales. The hotel is operated by Millennium & Copthorne.
3.8 km · building in Wales · Wikipedia - 08Gwalia Stores
Gwalia Stores is a retail premises originally built at Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, in 1880 and currently located at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales. The stores were a family business, run by William Llewellyn and his family.
3.1 km · building re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 09Denbigh Cockpit
Denbigh Cockpit is a reconstructed building at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The cockpit formerly stood in the yard of the Hawk and Buckle Inn at Vale Street, Denbigh, and is thought to date from the late seventeenth century.
3.1 km · building re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 10Melin Bompren
Melin Bompren is a water-powered corn mill, originally located at Cross Inn, Cardiganshire, Wales, but now at the St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff. The mill was built in 1853 to grind corn into flour.
3.2 km · building re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Peterston-super-Ely
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 9 km · Bristol (BRS), 43 km · Birmingham (BHX), 153 km
- Bristol → Peterston-super-Ely50 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–9
- London → Peterston-super-Ely221 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · £23–30
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Peterston-super-Ely148 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £16–22
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Peterston-super-Ely
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 Peterston-super-Ely. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.
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Next door to Peterston-super-Ely
Peterston-super-Ely is 10 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- St Faganscommunity in the west of the city of Cardiff, Wales3.7 km
- Pendoylanvillage and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.4 km
- St Georges-super-Elyvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales1.6 km
- St Nicholas and Bonvilstoncommunity in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.9 km
- Bonvilstonvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK2.8 km
- St Nicholasvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales2.3 km