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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pentrebach
Visit Pentrebach places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Pentrebach places to visit. A unique way to experience Pentrebach’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Pentrebach as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Pentrebach is a village in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales. It lies on the east side of the River Taff opposite Abercanaid and north of Troedyrhiw. The village was founded at the time that John Guest built the Plymouth Ironworks in 1763. The South Duffryn Colliery was opened with two shafts which were 250 metres (820 ft) deep. When you visit Pentrebach, Walkfo brings Pentrebach places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Pentrebach Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pentrebach
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With 39 audio plaques & Pentrebach places for you to explore in the Pentrebach area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Pentrebach places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Pentrebach with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Pentrebach places with Walkfo Pentrebach to hear history at Pentrebach’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pentrebach has 39 places to visit in our interactive Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach, 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 Pentrebach places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pentrebach & the surrounding areas.
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39 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Pentrebach places to visit
Pentrebach has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Pentrebach’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Pentrebach’s information audio spots:
 | Joseph Parry’s Cottage Joseph Parry’s Cottage, also known as 4 Chapel Row, is a cottage in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It was built in the early 19th century for ironworkers and is now open to the public as a museum. |
 | Canolfan Soar Canolfan Soar is a Grade II-listed community facility in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, that includes a theatre and other facilities. It was converted from the closed Grade II listed, eighteenth-century, Zoar Chapel in the first decade of the twenty-first century. |
 | Merthyr Tydfil bus station Merthyr Tydfil bus station is the main operator at the station. Main operator is Stagecoach South Wales. NAT Group and First Call Travel also run services. The former bus station closed and was demolished. |
 | The Wern The Wern is a sports stadium in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Opened in 1958, the stadium is home to rugby union and rugby league club South Wales Ironmen. The stadium is a combination of seating and standing with a capacity of 4,500. |
 | Merthyr Synagogue The former Merthyr Synagogue is located on Bryntirion Road in the Thomastown section of Merthry Tydfil. It is a Grade II listed building and is the oldest purpose-built synagogue still standing in Wales. |
 | Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme is a major opencast coaling operation to the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It will extract 10 million tonnes of coal over 15 years, the revenues from which will redevelop the current former industrial workings into residential and recreational use. The opencast coal mine has provoked criticism at a local and national scale. |
 | 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. |
 | Troed-y-rhiw Troed-y-rhiw is a large community village in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Its population at the 2011 census was 5,296. |
 | Mynydd Cilfach-yr-encil Mynydd Cilfach-yr-encil is the high point of the ridge of high ground between Taff Vale and Cwm Bargod in the Valleys region of South Wales. It lies within the unitary area of Merthyr Tydfil. |
 | 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. |
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here Pentrebach has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Pentrebach plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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