Welcome to Visit Nantgarw Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Nantgarw
Visit Nantgarw places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Nantgarw places to visit. A unique way to experience Nantgarw’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Nantgarw as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Nantgarw Walkfo Preview Nantgarw is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, near Cardiff. The original village was destroyed by the development of the A470 trunk road. It is within easy reach of Pontypridd (5+1/2 miles (9 km) to the northwest) and Cardiff City centre. When you visit Nantgarw, Walkfo brings Nantgarw places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Nantgarw Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Nantgarw
Visit Nantgarw – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 37 audio plaques & Nantgarw places for you to explore in the Nantgarw area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Nantgarw places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Nantgarw history
The potter and painter William Billingsley is credited with starting the porcelain trade here. Nantgarw lies on the River Taff and is known for its porcelains produced in between 1813-1814 and 1820.
Why visit Nantgarw with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Nantgarw places with Walkfo Nantgarw to hear history at Nantgarw’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Nantgarw has 37 places to visit in our interactive Nantgarw 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 Nantgarw, 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 Nantgarw places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Nantgarw & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Nantgarw tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Nantgarw
Best Nantgarw places to visit
Nantgarw has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Nantgarw’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Nantgarw’s information audio spots:
Upper Boat power station Upper Boat power station supplied electricity to Pontypridd and the wider area from 1904 to 1972. The station was decommissioned in 1972 and was demolished in 1976. It was owned and operated by the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company.
Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg Ysgol Garth Olwg was the first Welsh language comprehensive school in the south of Wales. The school was previously known as Ysgol Gyfun Gyfun Rhydfelen and Ysygol Gyfun Garth Olwg. It is situated in Church Village, near Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Dynea Halt railway station Dynea Halt was a small halt on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, and closed in 1956.
Mynydd Meio Mynydd Meio is a 322-metre-high hill in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales. The high point is just over 200 m north of the trig point which sits at 322 metres (1,056 ft) above sea-level.
Taff’s Well Thermal Spring Taff’s Well thermal spring is located north of Cardiff, South Wales. It is the only thermal spring in Wales. The spring is enclosed inside a well and stone building constructed in the 19th century.
Taff’s Well A.F.C. The team are based in Taff’s Well, in Cardiff, and compete in the Cymru South, the second tier of Welsh football. The team is nicknamed the Wellmen and their home is situated at the Rhiw’r Ddar Stadium.
Penyrheol, Caerphilly Penyrheol is a residential area (and electoral ward) of Caerphilly, Wales. It is often spelt as Pen-yr-heol by the local community. At the 2011 census the population of the community was 12,537.
Caerphilly District Miners Hospital Caerphilly District Miners’ Hospital (Welsh: Ysbytyty’r Glowyr Caerffili) was a community hospital in Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
St Michael and All Angels Church, Tongwynlais St Michael and All Angels Church is an Anglican church in the village of Tongwynlais, South Wales, serving the parish of the same name. It is a Grade II listed building.
Taff’s Well Taff’s Well (Welsh: Ffynnon Taf), is a semi-rural village, community and electoral ward located at the south easterly tip of Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 miles (9.7 km) to the North of Cardiff. It is separated from Gwaelod Y Garth by the River Taff. The Garth Mountain overlooks the village and was the inspiration for the fictional “Fynnon Garw”, featured in the book and film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.
Visit Nantgarw plaques
0 plaques hereNantgarw has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Nantgarw 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 Nantgarw using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Nantgarw plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Nantgarw audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Nantgarw allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Nantgarw’s 37 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Nantgarw freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Nantgarw Map App
Our visit Nantgarw map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Nantgarw & 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 Nantgarw tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Nantgarw centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Nantgarw area at LONG:-3.267032, LAT:51.564623.
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Things to do & visit in Nantgarw / surrounding areas
● Tonteg ● Church Village ● Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg ● Hawthorn, Rhondda Cynon Taf ● Hawthorn Greyhound Track ● Upper Boat ● Pontypridd Town A.F.C. ● Rhydyfelin ● Efail Isaf ● Nantgarw Colliery ● Nantgarw ● Eglwysilan ● Mynydd Meio ● Garth Hill ● Ainon Baptist Church (Tongwynlais) ● St David’s Church, Nottage ● Tongwynlais ● Castell Coch ● Walnut Tree Viaduct ● Taff’s Well Thermal Spring ● Wenallt Hill ● Fforestganol a Chwm Nofydd ● Taff’s Well A.F.C. ● Gwaelod-y-Garth ● Penyrheol, Caerphilly ● Virginia Park (Caerphilly) ● Caerphilly ● Caerphilly Castle ● Trecenydd ● Caerphilly District Miners Hospital
● Caerphilly Mountain ● Abertridwr, Caerphilly ● Upper Boat Studios ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Tongwynlais ● Taff’s Well
Getting to / around Nantgarw – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Nantgarw using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Nantgarw places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Nantgarw Public Transport Stations
Nantgarw Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Tonteg Halt railway station
Church Village Halt railway station
Upper Boat power station
Treforest Estate railway station
Upper Boat Halt railway station
Efail Isaf railway station
Upper Boat railway station
Dynea Halt railway station
Groeswen Halt railway station
Nantgarw (Low Level) Halt railway station
Tongwynlais railway station
Taffs Well railway station
Energlyn & Churchill Park railway station
Aber railway station
Caerphilly railway station
Glan y Llyn railway station
Abertridwr railway station
Nantgarw (High Level) Halt railway station
Castell Coch Woodlands and Road Section
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Local Nantgarw historians & Nantgarw tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Nantgarw? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Nantgarw’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 Nantgarw 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 Nantgarw 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 Nantgarw 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-Nantgarw’ web pages (for example: www.visitNantgarw.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