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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Glyncoch

  

Glyncoch Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Glyncoch

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Glyncoch history

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Glyncoch is Welsh language for ‘Red glen’ (glyn “glen, small valley” + coch “red”) How the name originated is unknown. The earliest noted settlement dates to Roman coins found in the area in the 1990s.

You can visit Glyncoch places with Walkfo Glyncoch to hear history at Glyncoch’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Glyncoch has 46 places to visit in our interactive Glyncoch 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 Glyncoch, 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 Glyncoch places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Glyncoch & the surrounding areas.

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46 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Glyncoch historic spots	Glyncoch tourist destinations	Glyncoch plaques	Glyncoch geographic features
Walkfo Glyncoch tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Glyncoch

  

Best Glyncoch places to visit

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Glyncoch has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Glyncoch’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Glyncoch’s information audio spots:

Calvert’s Engine Calvert’s Engine or the Newbridge Colliery Engine is a beam engine of 1845. It is preserved on the campus of the University of Glamorgan, South Wales.

Tabernacle, Ynysybwl Tabernacle, Ynysybwl is an Independent chapel in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The chapel is located in Other Street, in Other Street.

Pontypridd RFC Pontypridd Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team. They play in the Indigo Group Premiership, which they won for four consecutive seasons between 2012 and 2015. They have won the Specsavers National Cup on 6 occasions, with the most recent being in 2014. Established in 1876, they have produced numerous players for Wales national rugby union.

Dewi Sant Hospital Dewi Sant Hospital is a small hospital in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

Great Western Mine Great Western Mine, also known as Hetty Pit, was a coal mine, at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan in South Wales.

Pontypridd Cottage Hospital Pontypridd Cottage Hospital is a health facility in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

Rhondda Heritage Park Rhondda Heritage Park is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery.

Cefn Eglwysilan Cefn Eglwysilan is a hill in South Wales, the twin 382m summits of which lie 2 km east of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Its eastern side lies within the community of Aber Valley in Caerphilly county borough.

Jerusalem, Ynysybwl Jerusalem, Ynysybwl was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Glamorgan, Wales. Services at Jerusalem were conducted in the Welsh language.

Sardis Road Sardis Road is a rugby union stadium situated in Pontypridd, Wales. It is home to the Principality Premiership team, PontyPRidd RFC and previously the Celtic Warriors, the now defunct regional rugby union team. It’s commonly known as the “House of Pain”

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