Ynysybwl
Ynysybwl is a village in Wales.

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.
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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.
- 01Miskin
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 - 02Rhondda 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 - 03St 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 - 04Tabernacle, 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 - 05Carmel 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
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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 → Ynysybwl57 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ynysybwl137 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
- London → Ynysybwl224 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · £23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- 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 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