Rhoose
Rhoose is a village and community near the sea in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, near Barry.
Rhoose is a village and community near the sea in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, near Barry. The wider community includes villages and settlements such as Font-y-Gary, Penmark, East Aberthaw and Porthkerry. The population of the community in 2011 was 6,160.
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Worth seeing in and around Rhoose
5 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.
- 01Fonmon Castle
Fonmon Castle is a fortified medieval castle near the village of Fonmon in the Vale of Glamorgan and a Grade I listed building. The castle's gardens are designated Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
1.9 km · castle near Fonmon, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia - 02East Orchard Castle
East Orchard Castle is a ruined building near St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, whose remains date mainly from the 14th century.
3.4 km · ruined manor house near St Athan · Wikipedia - 03St Cadoc's Church
St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan is a church in Llancarfan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It dates from the 13th century and has been a Grade I listed building since 28 January 1963.
3.7 km · church in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Porthkerry Viaduct
Porthkerry Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The viaduct was designed and engineered by James Szlumper and William Szlumper, and was contracted to the Pethick Brothers to be built in the late nineteenth century in order to carry the Vale of Glamorgan Railway between Tondu via Coity Junction Bridgend and Barry Docks.
2.4 km · grade II listed bridge in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05The Blue Anchor Inn
The Blue Anchor Inn is a Grade II* listed inn in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
2.5 km · Public house in Wales · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Rhoose Point
- 02Fontygary Bay
Small coastal bay near Rhoose with cliffs, countryside and views over the Bristol Channel.
- 03Cardiff Airport
Wales' main commercial airport, located immediately south of Rhoose.
- 04Rhoose Cardiff International Airport
Off Torbay Terrace, Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, CF62 3HB.
From Wikivoyage: Rhoose, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Raj Kinara (Indian), Fontygary Caravan Park.
- 01Fontygary Inn
Fonmon Rd,.
From Wikivoyage: Rhoose, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Rhoose
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 1 km · Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Birmingham (BHX), 161 km
- Stations
- Cardiff Airport, 900 m · Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station, 500 m · Aberthaw High Level railway station, 2.5 km · Aberthaw Low Level railway station, 2.5 km
- Bristol → Rhoose53 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–11
- London → Rhoose224 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £24–32
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rhoose157 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Rhoose
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 Rhoose. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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- 02163 km
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If you know how people move in Rhoose – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Rhoose
Rhoose is 16 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Llancarfanvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales3.1 km
- Llancadlevillage in Wales2.9 km
- Moultonhamlet in Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Penmarkvillage in Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales2.9 km
- Llanbetheryvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK3.9 km
- Porthkerryvillage in Glamorgan, UK2.2 km