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Ynyshir

Ynyshir is a village and community located in the Rhondda Valley, within Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

Ynyshir
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The place

Ynyshir is a village and community located in the Rhondda Valley, within Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. The name of the village means "long island" in Welsh and takes its name from a farm in the area, falling within the historic parishes of Ystradyfodwg and Llanwynno (Llanwonno). The community of Ynyshir lies between the small adjoining village of Wattstown and the larger town of neighbouring Porth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ynyshir

5 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
    Rhondda 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.

    2 km · tourist attraction and museum in Trehafod, Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St 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.

    400 m · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tabernacle, Ynysybwl

    Tabernacle, Ynysybwl is a former Independent chapel in Other Street, Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

    4 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mynydd 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.

    2.9 km · hill (377m) in Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Craig 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.

    3.6 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.

Go there

Getting to Ynyshir

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 55 km · Birmingham (BHX), 146 km
Stations
Trehafod railway station, 2.5 km · Porth railway station, 1.2 km · Dinas Rhondda railway station, 2 km · Tonypandy railway station, 2.7 km · Llwynypia railway station, 3.2 km
  • Bristol → Ynyshir
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ynyshir
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £17–23
  • London → Ynyshir
    228 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £23–31
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ynyshir

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: South Wales, 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

    101 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    180 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    460 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    490 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ynyshir

Ynyshir is 22 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tonypandytown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK2.9 km
  • Porthvillage in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, south Wales1 km
  • Llwynypiavillage in Wales3 km
  • Trealawvillage in Wales2.9 km
  • Tylorstownvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK3.6 km
  • Cymmervillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales1.3 km