Welcome to Visit Wenvoe Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wenvoe
Visit Wenvoe places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wenvoe places to visit. A unique way to experience Wenvoe’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wenvoe as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Wenvoe Walkfo Preview Wenvoe (Welsh: Gwenfô) is a village and community between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is home to the former HTV Wales Television Centre at Culverhouse Cross which is now a housing estate. When you visit Wenvoe, Walkfo brings Wenvoe places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Wenvoe Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wenvoe
Visit Wenvoe – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Wenvoe places for you to explore in the Wenvoe area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wenvoe places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Wenvoe history
Wenvoe has doubled in population in the last 100 years due to new housing developments. The village originally developed around the parish church of St. Mary, which can be traced back to the twelfth century. The adjacent locality now being a conservation area.
Why visit Wenvoe with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wenvoe places with Walkfo Wenvoe to hear history at Wenvoe’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wenvoe has 41 places to visit in our interactive Wenvoe 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 Wenvoe, 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 Wenvoe places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wenvoe & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Wenvoe tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wenvoe
Best Wenvoe places to visit
Wenvoe has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wenvoe’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wenvoe’s information audio spots:
Colcot Dyfan ward is situated in the north west of Barry and its most northern edge is on the green belt of the town. It also contains the Colcot Arms pub, the St David’s Methodist Church, Coastlands Family Church, a fish and chip shop/Chinese takeaway, Barry Arts Centre and Merthyr Dyfan Cemetery.
Gibbonsdown Gibbonsdown, colloquially known as ‘Gibby’, is a residential area and electoral ward situated in the north east of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It borders Merthyr Dyfan to the northwest and Cadoxton to the southeast.
Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan Cadoxton is a district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It was once originally its own village, separate from Barry. It grew up around Saint Cadoc’s parish church, which survives.
St Fagans Castle St Fagans Castle (Welsh: Castell Sain Ffagan) is an Elizabethan mansion in Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed.
St Fagans railway station St Fagans railway station was on what is now the South Wales Main Line. The station was located in the village of St Fagans in South Wales.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau, Cardiff St. Mary the Virgin Church is a deconsecrated and ruined church in the parish of Caerau with Ely, Cardiff, Wales. It was built in the 13th century on a Roman encampment and closed for the last time in 1973.
Western Cemetery (Cardiff) Western Cemetery is a major cemetery located in the western suburb of Ely, Cardiff, Wales. It is located near Culverhouse Cross roundabout on the A48 road west of the city and provides burial facilities for people of all faiths.
St. Andrews Major St. Andrew’s Major (Welsh: Saint Andras) is a village and parish in the community of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, south-eastern Wales.
Michaelston-le-Pit Michaelston-le-Pit (Welsh: Llanfihangel-y-pwll) is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, just to the west of the city of Cardiff, Wales. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 309. The village is built near the confluence of two small streams which join to form the Cadoxton River.
Wrinstone The Wrinstone estate was variously also known as Wrenston, Wrencheston or Wrenchester. The Barry Railway line ran past the hamlet and entered the Wenvoe Tunnel. It closed after a fire in 1963.
Visit Wenvoe plaques
0 plaques hereWenvoe has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wenvoe 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 Wenvoe using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wenvoe plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Wenvoe audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wenvoe allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wenvoe’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wenvoe freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wenvoe Map App
Our visit Wenvoe map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wenvoe & 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 Wenvoe tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wenvoe centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wenvoe area at LONG:-3.27, LAT:51.45.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Wenvoe, 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 Wenvoe / surrounding areas
● Colcot ● Gibbonsdown ● Great Brynhill ● Lidmore ● Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan ● Ely (Cardiff electoral ward) ● Ely, Cardiff ● St Fagans Castle ● Caerau, Cardiff ● Michaelston-super-Ely ● St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau, Cardiff ● Caerau Hillfort ● Western Cemetery (Cardiff) ● Dinas Powys hillfort ● St Michael’s Church, Michaelston-le-Pit ● St. Andrews Major ● Michaelston-le-Pit ● Wrinstone ● Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith ● Caerau (Ely) A.F.C. ● Culverhouse Cross ● Wenvoe Quarry ● Twyn-yr-Odyn ● Downs, Vale of Glamorgan ● Wenvoe ● The Wenvoe Arms ● Goldsland ● St. Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan ● Wenvoe Castle ● Wenvoe Castle Golf Club
● Great Hamston ● Dyffryn, Vale of Glamorgan ● Tinkinswood ● St Lythans burial chamber ● Dyffryn Gardens ● Copthorne Hotel, Cardiff ● Coedarhydyglyn ● St Lythans ● Cardiff Ely bread riots
Getting to / around Wenvoe – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wenvoe using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wenvoe places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wenvoe Public Transport Stations
Wenvoe Notable Streets & Road Destinations
St Fagans railway station
Wenvoe transmitting station
Wenvoe railway station
Cowbridge Road West
A4050 road
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Local Wenvoe historians & Wenvoe tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wenvoe? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wenvoe’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 Wenvoe 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 Wenvoe 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 Wenvoe 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-Wenvoe’ web pages (for example: www.visitWenvoe.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