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Rhoose

Rhoose is a village and community near the sea in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, near Barry.

Rhoose
Rhoose · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Fonmon 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
  2. 02
    East 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    Porthkerry 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
  5. 05
    The 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

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Rhoose Point
  2. 02
    Fontygary Bay

    Small coastal bay near Rhoose with cliffs, countryside and views over the Bristol Channel.

  3. 03
    Cardiff Airport

    Wales' main commercial airport, located immediately south of Rhoose.

  4. 04
    Rhoose 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.

Eat

Where to eat

Raj Kinara (Indian), Fontygary Caravan Park.

  1. 01
    Fontygary Inn

    Fonmon Rd,.

From Wikivoyage: Rhoose, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Rhoose
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–11
  • London → Rhoose
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rhoose
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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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 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    475 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    480 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    516 km

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

Around it

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