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Pontyates

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pontyates

One place 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
    Cwm Clydach, Cydweli

    Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

    2.8 km · 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 Pontyates

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 72 km · Bristol (BRS), 112 km · Birmingham (BHX), 186 km
  • Cardiff → Pontyates
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–11
  • Bristol → Pontyates
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pontyates
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £22–29
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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 Pontyates

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 Pontyates. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSome of these come from Manchester Piccadilly via Cardiff, heading for Fishguard (for ferries to Ireland) or Milford Haven.

From Wikivoyage: Kidwelly, 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

    71 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    235 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    403 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    430 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    464 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pontyates

Pontyates is 24 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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