Welcome to Visit Tongwynlais Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tongwynlais
Visit Tongwynlais places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Tongwynlais places to visit. A unique way to experience Tongwynlais’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Tongwynlais as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Tongwynlais Walkfo Preview Tongwynlais is a village and community in the north of Cardiff, north of the M4 motorway. It is notable as the location of the hillside landmark, Castell Coch. When you visit Tongwynlais, Walkfo brings Tongwynlais places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Tongwynlais Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tongwynlais
Visit Tongwynlais – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 51 audio plaques & Tongwynlais places for you to explore in the Tongwynlais area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Tongwynlais places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Tongwynlais toponymy
Tongwynlais is believed to have obtained its name from the word ton (plural tonnau) meaning ley land, i.e. pasture, grassland or unploughed land. The name of a local family means “pasture of Gwynlai”
Why visit Tongwynlais with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Tongwynlais places with Walkfo Tongwynlais to hear history at Tongwynlais’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tongwynlais has 51 places to visit in our interactive Tongwynlais 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 Tongwynlais, 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 Tongwynlais places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tongwynlais & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Tongwynlais tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Tongwynlais
Best Tongwynlais places to visit
Tongwynlais has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Tongwynlais’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Tongwynlais’s information audio spots:
Radyr Golf Club Radyr Golf Club is a golf course in Radyr, northwestern Cardiff, Wales. It is the oldest existing golf club in Cardiff. It was established on 29 November 1902, following the breakup of Lisvane Golf Club, the preceding year.
Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital (Welsh: Tywysog Ysbyty Orthopedig Cymru) was a specialist hospital in Rhydlafar, Cardiff, Wales.
Coryton, Cardiff Coryton is a district of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. It lies immediately to the north of Whitchurch next to junction 32 of the M4 motorway. It is within the Whitchedurch & Tongwynlais electoral ward.
Pentyrch Pentyrch (Welsh: Pen-tyrch) is a village and community located on the western outskirts of Cardiff, Wales. The community includes the neighbouring village of Creigiau and Gwaelod y Garth. On 26 February 2016, multiple witnesses reported seeing UFOs.
Coryton railway station Coryton is the terminus of the Coryton Line 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Cardiff Central via Cardiff Queen Street. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
Risca United F.C. Risca United Association Football Club is a football club based in South Wales. The team play in the Cymru South, playing in the Welsh Premier League.
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.
BBC Radio Wales BBC Radio Wales is a Welsh radio network owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It began broadcasting on 13 November 1978, replacing the ‘Radio 4 Wales’ opt-out service (previously the Welsh Home Service) The station’s managing editor is Colin Paterson. According to RAJAR, Radio Wales has a weekly audience of 344,000 listeners.
Llandaff North Llandaff North (Welsh: Ystum Taf), is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, Wales. It is a community and community electoral ward.
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.
Visit Tongwynlais plaques
3 plaques hereTongwynlais has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Tongwynlais 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 Tongwynlais using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Tongwynlais plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Tongwynlais audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Tongwynlais allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Tongwynlais’s 51 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Tongwynlais freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Tongwynlais Map App
Our visit Tongwynlais map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Tongwynlais & 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 Tongwynlais tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Tongwynlais centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Tongwynlais area at LONG:-3.249, LAT:51.5307.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Tongwynlais, 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 Tongwynlais / surrounding areas
● Nantgarw ● Garth Hill ● Radyr Golf Club ● Radyr Hydro Scheme ● Creigiau & St Fagans ● Morganstown ● Rhydlafar ● Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar ● Christ Church, Radyr ● Llwynda-Ddu Camp ● Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve ● Ainon Baptist Church (Tongwynlais) ● St David’s Church, Nottage ● Tongwynlais ● Radyr Motive Power Depot ● Castell Coch ● Plasdwr ● Walnut Tree Viaduct ● Melingriffith Water Pump ● Melingriffith Tin Plate Works ● Parc-y-Dwrlyn Ground ● Danescourt ● Coryton, Cardiff ● Pentyrch ● Whitchurch Hospital ● Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr ● Whitchurch & Tongwynlais ● Trethomas Bluebirds A.F.C. ● Risca United F.C. ● Taff’s Well Thermal Spring
● BBC Radio Wales ● Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf ● Capel House ● Llandaff North ● Wenallt Hill ● Wenallt Camp ● Whitchurch, Cardiff ● Birchgrove, Cardiff ● Rhiwbina ● Rhiwbina Garden Village ● Fforestganol a Chwm Nofydd ● Taff’s Well A.F.C. ● Gwaelod-y-Garth ● Caerphilly Mountain ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Tongwynlais ● Velindre Cancer Centre ● Taff’s Well ● St Mary’s Church, Whitchurch ● Twmpath Castle
Getting to / around Tongwynlais – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Tongwynlais using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Tongwynlais places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Tongwynlais Public Transport Stations
Tongwynlais Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Nantgarw (Low Level) Halt railway station
Radyr railway station
Tongwynlais railway station
Coryton railway station
Taffs Well railway station
Llandaf railway station
Ty Glas railway station
Birchgrove railway station
Danescourt railway station
Rhiwbina railway station
Whitchurch railway station (Wales)
Glan y Llyn railway station
Nantgarw (High Level) Halt railway station
Castell Coch Woodlands and Road Section
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Local Tongwynlais historians & Tongwynlais tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Tongwynlais? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Tongwynlais’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 Tongwynlais 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 Tongwynlais 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 Tongwynlais 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-Tongwynlais’ web pages (for example: www.visitTongwynlais.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
Visit Tongwynlais places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Tongwynlais places to visit. A unique way to experience Tongwynlais’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Tongwynlais as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Tongwynlais places with Walkfo Tongwynlais to hear history at Tongwynlais’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tongwynlais has 51 places to visit in our interactive Tongwynlais 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 Tongwynlais, 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 Tongwynlais places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tongwynlais & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Tongwynlais?