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Waun-Lwyd

Waun-Lwyd or Waunlwyd is a village in the Ebbw Valley in Blaenau Gwent.

The place

Waun-Lwyd or Waunlwyd is a village in the Ebbw Valley in Blaenau Gwent. It belongs in the community of Cwm.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waun-Lwyd

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
    Cefn Manmoel

    Cefn Manmoel is the name given to the broad ridge of high ground between the Sirhowy Valley and Ebbw Vale in the Valleys region of South Wales. It straddles the boundary between the unitary areas of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent.

    1.2 km · area of high ground in South Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tredegar Town Hall

    Tredegar Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Circle, Tredegar, Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Tredegar Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    4 km · Grade II listed building in Tredegar. Building occupies SW quadrant of the Circle, in the town centre. · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery

    Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery is situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, between Rhymney and Tredegar in South East Wales. The Welsh name Cefn Golau means 'hill of light'.

    3.9 km · cemetery near Tredegar, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Nantyglo Round Towers

    Nantyglo Round Towers are located at Roundhouse Farm, Nantyglo, near Brynmawr in the borough of Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys. The two fortified towers were constructed in the early 19th century as places of retreat by the ironmaster Joseph Bailey, after a riot was caused by his brother's threat to cut wages.

    3.5 km · building in the United Kingdom · 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 Waun-Lwyd

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 41 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 126 km
Stations
Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station, 200 m · Ebbw Vale Town railway station, 2.3 km · Cwm railway station, 1.7 km
  • Cardiff → Waun-Lwyd
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4–6
  • Bristol → Waun-Lwyd
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Waun-Lwyd
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Waun-Lwyd

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 Waun-Lwyd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.

From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    121 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    479 km

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

Around it

Next door to Waun-Lwyd

Waun-Lwyd is 31 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.