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Pontypool
Town in Torfaen, Wales

Pontypool

Pontypool is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales.

Plan a trip to Pontypool→From Bristol

As of 2021, it has a population of 29,062.

Get in

Getting to Pontypool

At the intersection of the A472 (cross valley link road Usk-Treharris) and the A4042 (Abergavenny - Newport)

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    Pontypool
See

Worth seeing

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    Pontypool Park
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    Pontypool Museum
Do

Things to do

Rugby Union: Pontypool RFC play in Super Rygbi Cymru, the amateur top tier in Wales. They play at Riverside east edge of town.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Little Crown Inn

    Elled Road, Wainfelin,.

How locals move

Getting around Pontypool the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: WelshDave (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.