Welcome to Visit Glenboi Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Glenboi
Visit Glenboi places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Glenboi places to visit. A unique way to experience Glenboi’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Glenboi as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Glenboi Walkfo Preview Glenboi is a village located 1 mile North of the town Mountain Ash in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The English translation of the village is Wood Valley, “Glen” meaning a “small valley” When you visit Glenboi, Walkfo brings Glenboi places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Glenboi Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Glenboi
Visit Glenboi – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 46 audio plaques & Glenboi places for you to explore in the Glenboi area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Glenboi places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Glenboi with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Glenboi places with Walkfo Glenboi to hear history at Glenboi’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Glenboi has 46 places to visit in our interactive Glenboi 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 Glenboi, 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 Glenboi places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Glenboi & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Glenboi tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Glenboi
Best Glenboi places to visit
Glenboi has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Glenboi’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Glenboi’s information audio spots:
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.
Mynydd Merthyr Mynydd Merthyr is a broad ridge of high ground between Taff Vale (Welsh Cwm Taf) and the Cwm Cynon in the Valleys region of South Wales. It forms the boundary between the unitary authorities of Rhondda Cynon Taff to the west and Merthyrs Tydfil to the east. The high point of 493m is at Mynyd Gethin (OS grid reference SO 044025) The ridge includes subsidiary summits of Twyn Brynbychan and Twyn Sych.
Mountain Ash General Hospital Mountain Ash General Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Cyffredinol Mountain Ash) was a health facility on Duffryn Road, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf. It was managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Ysbyty Cwm Cynon Ysbyty Cwm Cynon (English: Cynon Valley Hospital) is a health facility on New Road, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Aberfan Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan] is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley. It became known for the Aberfan disaster, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
Soar, Cwmaman Soar, Cwmaman was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The chapel was built in the 1930s.
Seion, Cwmaman Seion, Cwmaman is a Welsh Baptist church originally established in 1859. The chapel closed in 2013 but the church still meets at another location in the village.
Penrhiwceiber Rangers F.C. Penrhiwceiber Rangers F.C play in the Ardal Leagues South West. The Welsh club were formed in 1961.
Cefn Gwyngul Cefn Gwyngul is a long broad ridge in Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough in South Wales. Its 470m high summit is marked by an ancient cairn known as Carn-y-Pigwn. Much of the hill is cloaked by modern forestry plantations.
Visit Glenboi plaques
3 plaques hereGlenboi has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Glenboi 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 Glenboi using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Glenboi plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Glenboi audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Glenboi allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Glenboi’s 46 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Glenboi freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Glenboi Map App
Our visit Glenboi map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Glenboi & 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 Glenboi tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Glenboi centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Glenboi area at LONG:-3.396, LAT:51.687.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Glenboi, 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 Glenboi – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Glenboi using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Glenboi places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Glenboi Public Transport Stations
Glenboi Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Aberaman railway station
Cwmbach railway station
Mountain Ash railway station
Fernhill railway station
Abercwmboi Halt railway station
Aberfan railway station
Penrhiwceiber railway station
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Local Glenboi historians & Glenboi tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Glenboi? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Glenboi’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 Glenboi 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 Glenboi 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 Glenboi 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-Glenboi’ web pages (for example: www.visitGlenboi.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