Welcome to Visit Maesycoed Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Maesycoed
Visit Maesycoed places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Maesycoed places to visit. A unique way to experience Maesycoed’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Maesycoed as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Maesycoed Walkfo Preview Maesycoed is a district in the town of Pontypridd in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is bounded by Graig to the south, Pwllgwaun to the east and Hopkinstown and Mynydd Gelliwion to the north. When you visit Maesycoed, Walkfo brings Maesycoed places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Maesycoed Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Maesycoed
Visit Maesycoed – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 45 audio plaques & Maesycoed places for you to explore in the Maesycoed area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Maesycoed places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Maesycoed with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Maesycoed places with Walkfo Maesycoed to hear history at Maesycoed’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Maesycoed has 45 places to visit in our interactive Maesycoed 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 Maesycoed, 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 Maesycoed places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Maesycoed & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Maesycoed tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Maesycoed
Best Maesycoed places to visit
Maesycoed has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Maesycoed’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Maesycoed’s information audio spots:
Dynea Halt railway station Dynea Halt was a small halt on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, and closed in 1956.
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.
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.
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”
Visit Maesycoed plaques
5 plaques hereMaesycoed has 5 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Maesycoed 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 Maesycoed using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Maesycoed plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Maesycoed audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Maesycoed allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Maesycoed’s 45 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Maesycoed freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Maesycoed Map App
Our visit Maesycoed map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Maesycoed & 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 Maesycoed tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Maesycoed centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Maesycoed area at LONG:-3.351967, LAT:51.599492.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Maesycoed, 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.
Things to do & visit in Maesycoed / surrounding areas
● Church Village ● Upper Church Village ● Hawthorn, Rhondda Cynon Taf ● Hawthorn Greyhound Track ● Rhydyfelin ● Taff-Ely ● Calvert’s Engine ● Maendy Quarry ● University of Glamorgan ● Mynydd y Glyn ● Glyntaff ● St Mary’s Church, Glyntaff ● Albion Colliery ● Cilfynydd ● Maesycoed ● Pontypridd RFC ● Graig, Pontypridd ● Dewi Sant Hospital ● Rhondda line ● Pwllgwaun ● Pontypridd ● Pontypridd railway accident ● Great Western Mine ● Hopkinstown ● Ynysangharad Park ● Ynysangharad War Memorial ● Old Bridge, Pontypridd ● Graigwen ● Pontypridd Cottage Hospital ● Merthyr line
Getting to / around Maesycoed – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Maesycoed using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Maesycoed places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Maesycoed Public Transport Stations
Maesycoed Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dynea Halt railway station
Treforest High Level railway station
Rhydyfelin (High Level) Halt railway station
Treforest railway station
Pontypridd Graig railway station
Pontypridd railway station
Pontypridd Tram Road railway station
Glyntaff Halt railway station
Trehafod railway station
Cilfynydd railway station
Clydach Court Halt railway station
Coedpenmaen railway station
Sardis Road
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Local Maesycoed historians & Maesycoed tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Maesycoed? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Maesycoed’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 Maesycoed 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 Maesycoed 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 Maesycoed 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-Maesycoed’ web pages (for example: www.visitMaesycoed.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