Welcome to Visit Cwmbach Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Cwmbach
Visit Cwmbach places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Cwmbach places to visit. A unique way to experience Cwmbach’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Cwmbach as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Cwmbach Walkfo Preview Cwmbach means ‘Little Valley’ in Welsh (Cwm = valley, Bach = little) Prior to the industrial revolution it consisted of a number of farms and homesteads. In the early to mid-19th century it became a significant coal mining community. When you visit Cwmbach, Walkfo brings Cwmbach places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Cwmbach Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cwmbach
Visit Cwmbach – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 61 audio plaques & Cwmbach places for you to explore in the Cwmbach area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Cwmbach places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Cwmbach history
There is evidence of inhabitation in the Cwmbach area since prehistoric times. The area was a quiet isolated area made up of farms and homesteads before industry. Its rural calm was first disturbed by the building of the Aberdare canal which opened in May 1812. All coal was subsequently exported via the canal and train systems to Cardiff Docks.
Why visit Cwmbach with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Cwmbach places with Walkfo Cwmbach to hear history at Cwmbach’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cwmbach has 61 places to visit in our interactive Cwmbach map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Cwmbach, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Cwmbach places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cwmbach & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 61 audio facts unique to Cwmbach places in an interactive Cwmbach map you can explore.”
Walkfo Cwmbach tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Cwmbach
Best Cwmbach places to visit
Cwmbach has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cwmbach’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cwmbach’s information audio spots:
St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon St Fagan’s Church is a Grade II-listed Anglican church in the village of Trecynon near Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales . It was originally built in the mid-nineteenth century in the Gothic Revival style .
Hen-Dy-Cwrdd Hen-Dy-Cwrdd is a disused Unitarian chapel in Trecynon, Aberdare, Wales . Services at the chapel were conducted in the Welsh language .
Salem, Robertstown Salem, Robertstown is an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Robertstown, Aberdare, Wales. The chapel is located in Bridge Street, Robertstown.
St John’s Church, Aberdare St John the Baptist’s is an ancient parish church in Aberdare, Wales. It is located in the centre of the town of Aberdares.
Siloa, Aberdare Siloa was the largest of the Welsh Independent, or Congregationalist, chapels in Aberdare. Established in 1844, Siloa is one of the few Welsh language chapels to remain open today.
St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare St Elvan’s Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church. It was built in 1851–1852, largely at the instigation of John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare from 1847 until 1859. The population of the parish was close to 14,000 people and increasing at a rate of approximately a thousand each year.
Aberdare General Hospital Aberdare General Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Cyffredinol Aberdâr) was a health facility in Rhondda Cynon Taf. It was managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Saron, Aberaman Saron, Aberaman was a Welsh Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Aberaman. It was formed as an initiative of David Price of Siloa, Aberdare. Saron was claimed to be the largest chapel in the Cynon Valley.
Bethania, Cwmbach Bethania, Cwmbach was a Baptist Chapel in the Aberdare Valley in Wales. Badly damaged by an air raid attack in 1941 it was restored but closed in the 1980s. Services were held in the Welsh language.
The Hoover Factory, Pentrebach The Hoover Factory, situated in Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, opened on 19 October 1948 in order to manufacture Hoover washing machines. The initial workforce consisted of only 350 people but throughout the years, the growth of the company saw this figure rise to 5,000 in the 1960s and 70s.
Visit Cwmbach plaques
4 plaques hereCwmbach has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Cwmbach plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Cwmbach using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Cwmbach plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Cwmbach audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Cwmbach allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Cwmbach’s 61 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Cwmbach freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Cwmbach Map App
Our visit Cwmbach map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Cwmbach & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Cwmbach tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Cwmbach centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Cwmbach area at LONG:-3.412778, LAT:51.707222.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Cwmbach, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Getting to / around Cwmbach – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Cwmbach using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Cwmbach places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Cwmbach Public Transport Stations
Cwmbach Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Aberdare railway station
Aberdare Low Level railway station
Abernant railway station
Aberaman railway station
Cwmbach railway station
Pentre-bach railway station
Abercanaid railway station
Mountain Ash railway station
Fernhill railway station
Abercwmboi Halt railway station
Black Lion Crossing Halt railway station
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Local Cwmbach historians & Cwmbach tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Cwmbach? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Cwmbach’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Cwmbach place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Cwmbach Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Cwmbach destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Cwmbach’ web pages (for example: www.visitCwmbach.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Cwmbach places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Cwmbach places to visit. A unique way to experience Cwmbach’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Cwmbach as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Cwmbach places with Walkfo Cwmbach to hear history at Cwmbach’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cwmbach has 61 places to visit in our interactive Cwmbach map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Cwmbach, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Cwmbach places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cwmbach & the surrounding areas.
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