Welcome to Visit Penywaun Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Penywaun
Visit Penywaun places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Penywaun places to visit. A unique way to experience Penywaun’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Penywaun as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Penywaun Walkfo Preview Penywaun (also in Welsh: Pen-y-waun) is a community, electoral ward and north-western suburb of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley. At the 2011 census, the population of the ward was registered as 3,063. When you visit Penywaun, Walkfo brings Penywaun places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Penywaun Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Penywaun
Visit Penywaun – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Penywaun places for you to explore in the Penywaun area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Penywaun places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Penywaun culture & places
Penywaun Workingmen’s Club and Institute (PWCI) began in the village in 1959. Many successful singers and entertainers have performed here, including Sir Tom Jones before his rise to stardom in the 1960s.
Why visit Penywaun with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Penywaun places with Walkfo Penywaun to hear history at Penywaun’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Penywaun has 41 places to visit in our interactive Penywaun 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 Penywaun, 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 Penywaun places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Penywaun & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Penywaun tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Penywaun
Best Penywaun places to visit
Penywaun has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Penywaun’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Penywaun’s information audio spots:
St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon St Fagan’s Church is a Grade II-listed Anglican church in the village of Trecynon near Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales . It was originally built in the mid-nineteenth century in the Gothic Revival style .
Hen-Dy-Cwrdd Hen-Dy-Cwrdd is a disused Unitarian chapel in Trecynon, Aberdare, Wales . Services at the chapel were conducted in the Welsh language .
Elim, Cwmdare Elim, Cwmdare was an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Aberdare, Wales . The chapel was built in the 1920s and 1930s .
Salem, Robertstown Salem, Robertstown is an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Robertstown, Aberdare, Wales. The chapel is located in Bridge Street, Robertstown.
St John’s Church, Aberdare St John the Baptist’s is an ancient parish church in Aberdare, Wales. It is located in the centre of the town of Aberdares.
Siloa, Aberdare Siloa was the largest of the Welsh Independent, or Congregationalist, chapels in Aberdare. Established in 1844, Siloa is one of the few Welsh language chapels to remain open today.
St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare St Elvan’s Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church. It was built in 1851–1852, largely at the instigation of John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare from 1847 until 1859. The population of the parish was close to 14,000 people and increasing at a rate of approximately a thousand each year.
Aberdare General Hospital Aberdare General Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Cyffredinol Aberdâr) was a health facility in Rhondda Cynon Taf. It was managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Ramoth, Hirwaun Ramoth, Hirwaun, Aberdare, Wales was originally a Baptist chapel. Services at Ramoth were held in Welsh language. Following renovation in 1982, the building continues to be used for Christian worship.
Nebo, Hirwaun Nebo, Hirwaun was an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Aberdare, Wales. The chapel was located in Merthyr Road, Hirwan, Wales, in the 1930s and 1940s. It is now located in the centre of the Welsh town.
Visit Penywaun plaques
0 plaques herePenywaun has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Penywaun 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 Penywaun using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Penywaun plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Penywaun audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Penywaun allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Penywaun’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Penywaun freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Penywaun Map App
Our visit Penywaun map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Penywaun & 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 Penywaun tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Penywaun centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Penywaun area at LONG:-3.483333, LAT:51.733333.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Penywaun, 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.
Getting to / around Penywaun – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Penywaun using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Penywaun places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Penywaun Public Transport Stations
Penywaun Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Aberdare railway station
Aberdare Low Level railway station
Hirwaun railway station
Black Lion Crossing Halt railway station
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Local Penywaun historians & Penywaun tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Penywaun? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Penywaun’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 Penywaun 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 Penywaun 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 Penywaun 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-Penywaun’ web pages (for example: www.visitPenywaun.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