Troed-y-rhiw
Troed-y-rhiw is a village and community in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
Troed-y-rhiw is a village and community in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Its population at the 2011 census was 5,296. It features the Troed-y-rhiw railway station.
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Worth seeing in and around Troed-y-rhiw
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.
- 01Mynydd Merthyr
Mynydd Merthyr is a broad ridge of high ground between Taff Vale and the Cwm Cynon in the Valleys region of South Wales. It forms the boundary between the unitary authorities of Rhondda Cynon Taff to the west and Merthyr Tydfil to the east.
2.1 km · mountain in south Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 02Bethania
Bethania is an Independent chapel in Phillip Street, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Bethania are conducted in the Welsh language.
3.9 km · chapel in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia - 03Mountain Ash Town Hall
Mountain Ash Town Hall is a municipal structure in Ffrwd Crescent, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Mountain Ash Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · Grade II listed building in Mountain Ash · Wikipedia - 04Hoover's Sports Ground
Hoover's Sports Ground was a cricket ground in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The site of the ground was previously the site of a disused railway siding.
2 km · cricket ground in Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Troed-y-rhiw
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 35 km · Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 137 km
- Stations
- Troed-y-rhiw railway station, 100 m · Merthyr Vale railway station, 2.9 km · Pentre-bach railway station, 1.9 km · Abercanaid railway station, 2.4 km · Aberfan railway station, 2.6 km
- Bristol → Troed-y-rhiw41 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Troed-y-rhiw114 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–17
- London → Troed-y-rhiw288 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · £34–45
- 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 Troed-y-rhiw
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 Troed-y-rhiw. 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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Troed-y-rhiw is 28 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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