Welcome to Visit Penybryn Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Penybryn
Visit Penybryn places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Penybryn places to visit. A unique way to experience Penybryn’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Penybryn as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Penybryn Walkfo Preview Penybryn is a small village situated near Gelligaer in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales. The village is situated near the Welsh town of Geddaer. When you visit Penybryn, Walkfo brings Penybryn places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Penybryn Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Penybryn
Visit Penybryn – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 34 audio plaques & Penybryn places for you to explore in the Penybryn area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Penybryn places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Penybryn with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Penybryn places with Walkfo Penybryn to hear history at Penybryn’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Penybryn has 34 places to visit in our interactive Penybryn 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 Penybryn, 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 Penybryn places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Penybryn & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Penybryn tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Penybryn
Best Penybryn places to visit
Penybryn has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Penybryn’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Penybryn’s information audio spots:
Pontllanfraith Pontllanfraith is a large village and community located in the Sirhowy Valley in Caerphilly county borough, Wales. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 8,552. The village includes the communities of Penllwyn, Springfield, Woodfieldside and The Bryn.
Valley Greyhound Stadium The Valley Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing stadium in Wales. It is located in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales.
CCB Centre for Sporting Excellence The CCB Centre for Sporting Excellence (Welsh: Canolfan Rhagoriaeth Chwaraeon Brwrdeistaf Sirol Caerffili) was opened in May 2014. Newport Gwent Dragons use the facility as a training base, along with local educational establishment Coleg y Cymoedd.
Ystrad Mynach Hospital Ystrad Mynach Hospital was a community hospital in Wales. It was managed by Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board.
Gelligaer Gelligaer is a town and community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales, in the Rhymney River valley. The population of the Town as shown at the 2011 census was 18,408.
Deep Navigation Colliery Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991. Producing the highest quality steam coal, it powered both the Cunard passenger steamers RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania in their successful attempts at the Blue Riband prize for the most rapid Atlantic Ocean passage.
Treharris Athletic Western F.C. Treharris Athletic Western F.C. play in the Ardal Leagues South West. Their home ground is based in Parc Taf Bargoed in the neighbouring village of Trelewis.
Llancaiach Fawr Llancaiach Fawr Manor is a Tudor manor house in the Rhymney Valley in South Wales. It is a Grade I listed building and is now best known as the home of Colonel Edward Prichard, who hosted a visit by King Charles I of England in 1645.
Visit Penybryn plaques
0 plaques herePenybryn has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Penybryn 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 Penybryn using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Penybryn plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Penybryn audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Penybryn allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Penybryn’s 34 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Penybryn freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Penybryn Map App
Our visit Penybryn map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Penybryn & 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 Penybryn tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Penybryn centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Penybryn area at LONG:-3.2506, LAT:51.658.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Penybryn, 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 Penybryn / surrounding areas
● Pontllanfraith ● Hengoed Viaduct ● Maesycwmmer ● Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni ● Hengoed ● Blackwood Interchange ● Cefn Hengoed ● Pengam ● Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr ● Valley Greyhound Stadium ● St Anne’s Church, Cefn Hengoed ● Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute ● Cefn Fforest ● Ystrad Mynach ● CCB Centre for Sporting Excellence ● Ystrad Mynach Hospital ● Penallta Colliery ● Ysgol Gymraeg Gilfach Fargod ● Gilfach ● Penpedairheol, Caerphilly ● Gelligaer ● Penybryn ● Deep Navigation Colliery ● Treharris Athletic Western F.C. ● Trelewis ● Nelson, Caerphilly ● Llancaiach ● Llancaiach Colliery ● Llancaiach Fawr ● Bargoed
● Llanvabon ● Mynydd Eglwysilan
Getting to / around Penybryn – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Penybryn using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Penybryn places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Penybryn Public Transport Stations
Penybryn Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Maesycwmmer railway station
Hengoed railway station
Cwmbran bus station
Ystrad Mynach railway station
Gilfach Fargoed railway station
Pengam railway station
Trelewis Halt railway station
Nelson and Llancaiach railway station
A469 road
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Local Penybryn historians & Penybryn tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Penybryn? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Penybryn’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 Penybryn 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 Penybryn 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 Penybryn 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-Penybryn’ web pages (for example: www.visitPenybryn.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