Senghenydd
Senghenydd is a former mining village in the community of Aber Valley in South Wales, approximately four miles northwest of the town of Caerphilly.
Senghenydd is a former mining village in the community of Aber Valley in South Wales, approximately four miles northwest of the town of Caerphilly. Historically within the county of Glamorgan, it is now situated in the county borough of Caerphilly. In the United Kingdom Census 2001, the population of the Aber Valley was 6,696.
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Worth seeing in and around Senghenydd
3 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.
- 01Cefn Eglwysilan
Cefn Eglwysilan is a hill in South Wales, the twin 382m summits of which lie 2 km east of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough. Its eastern side lies within the community of Aber Valley in Caerphilly county borough.
2 km · hill (382m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is a Church in Wales parish church in the village of Glyntaff, near Pontypridd, South Wales. It is the oldest Anglican church in the Pontypridd urban area.
3.4 km · church in Glyntaff, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia - 03Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
The Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of 1913, the worst mining accident in British history; the 81 lives lost in an earlier pit explosion at Senghenydd in 1901; and acts as a national memorial to all of the dead of the 152 mining disasters that have occurred in Wales. The garden was opened in 2013, the centenary of the 1913 event.
500 m · memorial garden in Caerphilly, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Senghenydd
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 24 km · Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 141 km
- Stations
- Llanbradach railway station, 3.1 km · Treforest railway station, 3.8 km · Abertridwr railway station, 1.6 km
- Bristol → Senghenydd50 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Senghenydd135 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £17–22
- London → Senghenydd218 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £23–30
- 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 Senghenydd
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 Senghenydd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Senghenydd
Senghenydd is 16 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Llanbradach and Pwllypantcommunity in Caerphilly, Wales, UK2.5 km
- Cilfynyddvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.5 km
- Hawthornvillage Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.7 km
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