Tonypandy
Tonypandy is a town, community and electoral ward located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying in the Rhondda Fawr Valley.
Tonypandy is a town, community and electoral ward located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying in the Rhondda Fawr Valley. A former industrial coal mining town, the town was the scene of the 1910 Tonypandy riots.
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Worth seeing in and around Tonypandy
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.
- 01Parc and Dare Hall
The Parc and Dare Hall, now known as the Park and Dare Theatre, is a former Miners' institute but now serves as a large entertainment venue in the village of Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley of Wales. Since the demolition of the Abercynon Workingmen's Hall, the Parc and Dare Workingmen's Hall is the largest in the South Wales Coalfield.
5.6 km · theatre in Treorchy, Wales · Wikipedia - 02Rhondda Heritage Park
Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery.
4.6 km · tourist attraction and museum in Trehafod, Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church is an Anglican church serving the parish of Ystradyfodwg and the village of Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located on Pentre Road, with the south-west end of its churchyard fronting the main thoroughfare of Llewellyn Street.
4.5 km · church in Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Mynydd Maendy
Mynydd Maendy is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales, to the southwest of Tonyrefail. As with the Maindee district of Newport, the name derives from the Welsh maen dy meaning "stone house".
6 km · hill (301m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia - 05Craig Pont Rhondda
Craig Pont Rhondda is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Llwynypia, Rhondda, south Wales. The Countryside Council for Wales states that the site has been categorised as a Site of Special Interest because it "...is the largest remaining broadleaved woodland in the valley of the Rhondda Fawr.
1.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia - 06Hebron Welsh Baptist Chapel
Hebron, Ton Pentre was one of the largest Baptist churches in the Rhondda valleys during their industrial heyday. As membership increased the chapel was rebuilt in 1889 and a schoolroom added in 1908.
3.8 km · Baptist chapel in Ton Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07St Anne's Church, Ynyshir
St Anne's Church, Ynyshir is located in the Welsh village of Ynyshir in the Benefice of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley. It dates from the 1880s.
2.9 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Cefn Gwyngul
Cefn Gwyngul is a long broad ridge to the east of the Rhondda Fach valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough in South Wales. Its 470m high summit is marked by an ancient cairn known as Carn-y-Pigwn, on which is a more recent trig point.
5.2 km · hill (470m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia - 09Mynydd y Glyn
Mynydd y Glyn is a mountain in South Wales, between the towns of Pontypridd and Tonyrefail. It has a height above sea level of 377 metres.
4.5 km · hill (377m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia - 10Daren y Dimbath
Daren y Dimbath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bridgend, south Wales.
5.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tonypandy
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 149 km
- Stations
- Treorchy railway station, 5.4 km · Dinas Rhondda railway station, 1.1 km · Tonypandy railway station, 300 m · Ton Pentre railway station, 3.7 km · Ystrad Rhondda railway station, 2.6 km
- Bristol → Tonypandy62 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Tonypandy143 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £18–24
- London → Tonypandy230 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £24–32
- 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 Tonypandy
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 Tonypandy. 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 Tonypandy
Tonypandy is 25 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Treorchyvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK5.6 km
- Llwynypiavillage in Wales1.4 km
- Porthvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, south Wales3 km
- Ferndaletown and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK4 km
- Tonyrefailvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK4.5 km
- Tylorstownvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.1 km