St Georges-super-Ely
St Georges-super-Ely, also known as St Georges, is a small village and community in the western outskirts of Cardiff, in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
St Georges-super-Ely, also known as St Georges, is a small village and community in the western outskirts of Cardiff, in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Lying to the northwest of Culverhouse Cross, between Peterston-super-Ely and Michaelston-super-Ely, it contains a medieval church and ruined manor house dated to the fifteenth century. The community includes the settlements of St Brides-super-Ely, Drope, Downs and Sant-y-Nyll.
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Worth seeing in and around St Georges-super-Ely
10 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.
- 01St Fagans Castle
St Fagans Castle is an Elizabethan mansion in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed.
2.1 km · Elizabethan manor house in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 02St Fagans National History Museum
St Fagans National Museum of History, commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.
1.9 km · Open-air museum in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Teilo's Church
St Teilo's Church is a historic building originally located at Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont near Pontarddulais and now reconstructed at St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff, Wales.
1.4 km · church re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Kennixton Farmhouse
Kennixton Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse originally built at Kennexstone, Llangennith, Gower, and currently located at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.
1.7 km · building re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 05The Vulcan
The Vulcan Hotel is a historic hotel and public house, that was located in Adam Street in the Adamsdown suburb of Cardiff, South Wales. Scheduled for demolition in 2009, after a long public campaign to preserve what had become one of Cardiff's oldest working public houses, in 2012 it was donated to the National History Museum at St Fagans.
1.5 km · pub re-erected at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 06Pen-Rhiw Unitarian Chapel
Capel Pen Rhiw (also called Pen Rhiw Unitarian Chapel, is a Grade II listed building, originally built in 1777, on a hill overlooking Dre-fach Felindre, a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is thought to have been converted from a barn.
1.8 km · chapel rebuilt at St Fagan's Museum · Wikipedia - 07Copthorne Hotel, Cardiff
Copthorne Hotel Cardiff—Caerdydd is a four star hotel in Culverhouse Cross, a western suburb of Cardiff, capital of Wales. The hotel is operated by Millennium & Copthorne.
2.8 km · building in Wales · Wikipedia - 08St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a deconsecrated and ruined church in the parish of Caerau with Ely, Cardiff, Wales. It was built in the 13th century on a Roman encampment and closed for the last time in 1973.
4 km · church in Caerau, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 09St Mary's Church
The Saint Mary's Church in St Fagans is a medieval church located in Cardiff, south Wales. Built in the 12th century it underwent extensive and sympathetic restoration in 1859, undertaken by G. E. Street in 1859.
2.2 km · church in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales · Wikipedia - 10Ty Du Moor
Ty Du Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Glamorgan, south Wales.
2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to St Georges-super-Ely
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 10 km · Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Birmingham (BHX), 151 km
- Bristol → St Georges-super-Ely49 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
- London → St Georges-super-Ely220 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £23–31
- Birmingham, West Midlands → St Georges-super-Ely147 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for St Georges-super-Ely
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 St Georges-super-Ely. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.
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St Georges-super-Ely is 8 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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