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Ynysybwl

Ynysybwl is a village in Wales.

Ynysybwl
Ynysybwl · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ynysybwl is a village in Wales. It is situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly 15 miles (24 km) north-north-west of Cardiff, 4 miles (6 km) north of Pontypridd and 16 miles (26 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the community of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-Cwm.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ynysybwl

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
    Miskin

    Miskin is a village and district of the town of Mountain Ash within the Cynon Valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The Miskin district is part of the community of Penrhiwceiber and, for the purposes of local and national governance, is part of the electoral ward of Penrhiwceiber, along with the district of Perthcelyn.

    3.9 km · village in Penrhiwceiber, near Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.5 km · tourist attraction and museum in Trehafod, Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.3 km · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tabernacle, Ynysybwl

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

    500 m · church in Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Carmel Independent Chapel

    Carmel, Penrhiwceiber is an Independent chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Carmel were conducted in the Welsh language.

    3.5 km · chapel in Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 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 Ynysybwl

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 27 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 143 km
Stations
Abercynon railway station, 2.6 km · Quakers Yard railway station, 3.8 km · Trehafod railway station, 3.4 km · Penrhiwceiber railway station, 3.4 km · Abercynon North railway station, 2.8 km
  • Bristol → Ynysybwl
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ynysybwl
    137 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
  • London → Ynysybwl
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ynysybwl

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 Ynysybwl. 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

    104 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    179 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    453 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    462 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    489 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ynysybwl

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

  • Abercynonvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales2.9 km
  • Ynyshirvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.5 km
  • Cymmervillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.5 km
  • Trehafodvillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Penrhiwceibervillage and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales3.4 km
  • Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwmcommunity in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK1.3 km