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Pontlottyn

Pontlottyn is a village located in the county borough of Caerphilly, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.

Pontlottyn
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The place

Pontlottyn is a village located in the county borough of Caerphilly, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. It is sited just to the south of Rhymney, and to the west of the Rhymney River.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pontlottyn

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 38 km · Bristol (BRS), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 133 km
  • Bristol → Pontlottyn
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pontlottyn
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
  • London → Pontlottyn
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pontlottyn

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 Pontlottyn. 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

    181 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    462 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    480 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pontlottyn

Pontlottyn is 29 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.