Welcome to Visit Abercanaid Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Abercanaid
Visit Abercanaid places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Abercanaid places to visit. A unique way to experience Abercanaid’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Abercanaid as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Abercanaid Walkfo Preview Abercanaid (Welsh: Abercannaid) is a small village in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, with a population of about 5,060. It is situated 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the town centre and is west of Pentrebach, across the River Taff and north of Troedyrhiw. The Taff Trail runs through the village, adjacent to the path of the disused Glamorganshire Canal. When you visit Abercanaid, Walkfo brings Abercanaid places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Abercanaid Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Abercanaid
Visit Abercanaid – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 43 audio plaques & Abercanaid places for you to explore in the Abercanaid area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Abercanaid places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Abercanaid with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Abercanaid places with Walkfo Abercanaid to hear history at Abercanaid’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Abercanaid has 43 places to visit in our interactive Abercanaid 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 Abercanaid, 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 Abercanaid places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Abercanaid & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Abercanaid tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Abercanaid
Best Abercanaid places to visit
Abercanaid has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Abercanaid’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Abercanaid’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.
Bethania, Cwmbach Bethania, Cwmbach was a Baptist Chapel in the Aberdare Valley in Wales. Badly damaged by an air raid attack in 1941 it was restored but closed in the 1980s. Services were held in the Welsh language.
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.
Visit Abercanaid plaques
2 plaques hereAbercanaid has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Abercanaid 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 Abercanaid using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Abercanaid plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Abercanaid audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Abercanaid allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Abercanaid’s 43 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Abercanaid freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Abercanaid Map App
Our visit Abercanaid map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Abercanaid & 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 Abercanaid tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Abercanaid centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Abercanaid area at LONG:-3.3666666666667, LAT:51.716666666667.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Abercanaid, 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 Abercanaid / surrounding areas
● Joseph Parry’s Cottage ● Glamorganshire Canal ● Penydarren Park ● Bethesda, Merthyr Tydfil ● Canolfan Soar ● Ynysgau Chapel, Merthyr Tydfil ● Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall ● St Tydfil’s Hospital ● The Wern ● Merthyr Synagogue ● Bethania, Cwmbach ● Cwmbach ● Pentrebach ● Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil ● Hoover’s Sports Ground ● Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme ● The Hoover Factory, Pentrebach ● Plymouth Ironworks ● Troed-y-rhiw ● Mynydd Cilfach-yr-encil ● Mynydd Merthyr ● Town, Merthyr Tydfil ● Cwm Glo ● Mountain Ash General Hospital ● Cwmpennar ● Cefnpennar ● Mountain Ash Urban District ● Bethania, Mountain Ash ● Ysbyty Cwm Cynon ● South Wales
● Bethlehem, Mountain Ash ● Mountain Ash East ● Glenboi ● Taff Trail ● Aberfan ● Merthyr Vale ● Merthyr Tydfil County Borough ● Old Iron Bridge, Merthyr Tydfil ● Abercanaid ● Merthyr Tydfil ● Mountain Ash Town Hall
Getting to / around Abercanaid – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Abercanaid using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Abercanaid places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Abercanaid Public Transport Stations
Abercanaid Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Merthyr Tydfil bus station
Cwmbach railway station
Pentre-bach railway station
Abercanaid railway station
Troed-y-rhiw railway station
Merthyr Tydfil railway station
Mountain Ash railway station
Fernhill railway station
Abercwmboi Halt railway station
Aberfan railway station
Merthyr Vale railway station
Bedlinog railway station
A4060 road
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Local Abercanaid historians & Abercanaid tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Abercanaid? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Abercanaid’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 Abercanaid 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 Abercanaid 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 Abercanaid 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-Abercanaid’ web pages (for example: www.visitAbercanaid.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 Abercanaid places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Abercanaid places to visit. A unique way to experience Abercanaid’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Abercanaid as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Abercanaid places with Walkfo Abercanaid to hear history at Abercanaid’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Abercanaid has 43 places to visit in our interactive Abercanaid 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 Abercanaid, 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 Abercanaid places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Abercanaid & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Abercanaid?