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St Mary Hill

St Mary Hill is a settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

St Mary Hill
St Mary Hill · Wikimedia Commons
The place

St Mary Hill is a settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north west of the market town of Cowbridge. It is part of the community of Llangan along with Treoes and the village of Llangan itself.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around St Mary Hill

6 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
    Penllyn Castle

    Penllyn Castle is a Norman-style country house, dating mainly from the Victorian period, located in Cowbridge, 4 miles south-east of Bridgend, South Wales. Built by Robert Fitzhamon in 1135, the sheriff Earl of Gloucester, it shares an oblong tower like contemporary Ogmore Castle.

    3.3 km · castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade I listed church in Colwinston, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963.

    3.8 km · church in Colwinston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Senwyr's Church

    St Senwyr's Church is a Grade I listed church in Llansannor, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963.

    3.7 km · church in Llansannor, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Canna's Church

    St Canna Church is a church in Llangan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Its churchyard cross is a Grade I listed building, listed on 22 July 2003.

    900 m · church in Llangan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Llansannor Court

    Llansannor Court is a Grade I listed building in Llansannor, near Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 16 December 1952.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Vale of Glamorgan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Coedymwstwr Woodlands

    Coedymwstwr Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located between Coychurch and Pencoed in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales. The woodlands is home to Coed-y-Mwstwr cave, a caving system that has been theorised as a hiding space used by Owain Glyndŵr.

    2.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest 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.

Go there

Getting to St Mary Hill

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 16 km · Bristol (BRS), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 160 km
Stations
Pencoed railway station, 2.8 km
  • Bristol → St Mary Hill
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • London → St Mary Hill
    3 km · quickest by ferry, 49 min · £0–1
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → St Mary Hill
    6 km · quickest by road, 25 min · £1.5–2
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for St Mary Hill

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 Mary Hill. 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

    89 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    178 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    460 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    466 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    502 km

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

Around it

Next door to St Mary Hill

St Mary Hill is 22 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Colwinstonvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan3.7 km
  • Bracklacommunity and suburb in Bridgend, Wales3.8 km
  • Penllynvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK2.9 km
  • Llanganvillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales1.1 km
  • Coychurchvillage in Bridgend, Wales, UK1.9 km
  • Llansannorhamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK3.7 km