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Quakers Yard

Quakers Yard or Quaker's Yard is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins the Taff Valley.

Quakers Yard
Quakers Yard · Train Photos
The place

Quakers Yard or Quaker's Yard is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins the Taff Valley. The settlement is part of the community of Treharris.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Quakers Yard

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
    Tabernacle, Ynysybwl

    Tabernacle, Ynysybwl is a former Independent chapel in Other Street, Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

    4 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Carmel Independent Chapel

    Carmel, Penrhiwceiber is an Independent chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Carmel were conducted in the Welsh language.

    3.8 km · chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 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.

Go there

Getting to Quakers Yard

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 29 km · Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 139 km
Stations
Abercynon railway station, 2.3 km · Merthyr Vale railway station, 3.4 km · Penrhiwceiber railway station, 3.5 km · Quakers Yard railway station, 800 m · Abercynon North railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Quakers Yard
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Quakers Yard
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £8–10
  • London → Quakers Yard
    121 km · quickest by road, 3h · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Quakers Yard

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 Quakers Yard. 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

    108 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    177 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

    465 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    487 km

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

Around it

Next door to Quakers Yard

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

  • Abercynonvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales2.1 km
  • Penrhiwceibervillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.6 km
  • Cilfynyddvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales4 km
  • Mount Pleasantvillage in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK2.7 km
  • Trelewisvillage in Wales1.3 km
  • Carnetownsuburb in Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales2.7 km