Trelewis
Trelewis is a small village in the Taff Bargoed Valley of south-east Wales, currently located in the southern part of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.
Trelewis is a small village in the Taff Bargoed Valley of south-east Wales, currently located in the southern part of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. It is a former mining village and together with nearby Bedlinog was until 1974 part of the Gelligaer Urban District Council area of the county of Glamorgan. The villages name means 'Lewis Town' and was named after the Lewis family who owned a farm on the area where the village is now built.
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Worth seeing in and around Trelewis
One place 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 Catwg's Church
St Catwg's Church, Gelligaer, is a listed place of worship in the community of Gelligaer in Caerphilly, South Wales.
3.2 km · church in Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Trelewis
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 30 km · Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 137 km
- Stations
- Abercynon railway station, 3.5 km · Merthyr Vale railway station, 3.5 km · Quakers Yard railway station, 2 km · Abercynon North railway station, 3.3 km
- Bristol → Trelewis54 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Trelewis132 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–22
- London → Trelewis220 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · £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 Trelewis
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 Trelewis. 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 Trelewis
Trelewis is 22 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Abercynonvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.3 km
- Penpedairheolvillage in Caerphilly, Wales, UK3.7 km
- Mount Pleasantvillage in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK2.9 km
- Quakers Yardvillage in Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom1.3 km
- Carnetownsuburb in Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.9 km
- Pentwyn Deintyrvillage in Wales3.1 km