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Tal-y-bont

Tal-y-bont is a village in Ceredigion, Wales, located on the A487 road about halfway between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth.

The place

Tal-y-bont is a village in Ceredigion, Wales, located on the A487 road about halfway between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth. At the 2011 census the population was 662 with 63% born in Wales. Tal-y-bont is in the community of Ceulanamaesmawr.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tal-y-bont

4 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
    Bedd Taliesin

    Bedd Taliesin is the legendary grave of the poet Taliesin, located in Ceredigion, Wales. The Bronze Age round cairn is a listed Historic Monument.

    2.4 km · listed Historic Monument and grave · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Coed Cwm Cletwr

    Coed Cwm Clettwr is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ceredigion, west Wales. It is designated for mature broadleaf woodland.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cae Ty-hen

    Talybont may refer to:

    1.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gwaun Troed-rhiw-seiri a Llyn Mynydd-gorddu

    This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Ceredigion Area of Search.

    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.

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Getting to Tal-y-bont

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 121 km · Cardiff (CWL), 129 km · Manchester (MAN), 149 km
  • Liverpool → Tal-y-bont
    103 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £12–17
  • Cardiff → Tal-y-bont
    157 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £20–27
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Tal-y-bont
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £17–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tal-y-bont

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 Tal-y-bont. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo Holyhead there are ferries from Dublin and Dún Laoghaire; and to Fishguard from Rosslare.
  • Go nextPennine Way walk running the spine of England from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders Coast To Coast Walk a 190-mile long-distance walking trail in England which crosses the North of England from St Bees in Cumbria on the West coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire on the East coast.

From Wikivoyage: Wales Coast Path, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    153 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    272 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    393 km

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

Around it

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