Welcome to Visit Church Village Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Church Village
Visit Church Village places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Church Village places to visit. A unique way to experience Church Village’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Church Village as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Church Village Walkfo Preview Church Village (Welsh: Pentre’r Eglwys) is a large village in the historic parish and community of Llantwit Fardre. It is located in the Taff Ely district of the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales. When you visit Church Village, Walkfo brings Church Village places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Church Village Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Church Village
Visit Church Village – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 39 audio plaques & Church Village places for you to explore in the Church Village area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Church Village places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Church Village history
Church Village is also commonly used to refer to the whole CF38 postcode area of Pontypridd, comprising the principal settlements of Beddau, Efail Isaf, Llantwit Fardre, Ton-Teg, Tyn-y-Nant and Upper Church Village. Church Village was served by Church Village railway station on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway until 1964.
Why visit Church Village with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Church Village places with Walkfo Church Village to hear history at Church Village’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Church Village has 39 places to visit in our interactive Church Village 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 Church Village, 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 Church Village places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Church Village & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 39 audio facts unique to Church Village places in an interactive Church Village map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Church Village Places Map 39 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Church Village historic spots
Church Village tourist destinations
Church Village plaques
Church Village geographic features
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Walkfo Church Village tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Church Village
Best Church Village places to visit
Church Village has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Church Village’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Church Village’s information audio spots:
Upper Boat power station Upper Boat power station supplied electricity to Pontypridd and the wider area from 1904 to 1972. The station was decommissioned in 1972 and was demolished in 1976. It was owned and operated by the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company.
Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg Ysgol Garth Olwg was the first Welsh language comprehensive school in the south of Wales. The school was previously known as Ysgol Gyfun Gyfun Rhydfelen and Ysygol Gyfun Garth Olwg. It is situated in Church Village, near Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Dynea Halt railway station Dynea Halt was a small halt on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, and closed in 1956.
Calvert’s Engine Calvert’s Engine or the Newbridge Colliery Engine is a beam engine of 1845. It is preserved on the campus of the University of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Mynydd Meio Mynydd Meio is a 322-metre-high hill in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales. The high point is just over 200 m north of the trig point which sits at 322 metres (1,056 ft) above sea-level.
Pontypridd RFC Pontypridd Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team. They play in the Indigo Group Premiership, which they won for four consecutive seasons between 2012 and 2015. They have won the Specsavers National Cup on 6 occasions, with the most recent being in 2014. Established in 1876, they have produced numerous players for Wales national rugby union.
Dewi Sant Hospital Dewi Sant Hospital is a small hospital in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Pontypridd Cottage Hospital Pontypridd Cottage Hospital is a health facility in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Sardis Road Sardis Road is a rugby union stadium situated in Pontypridd, Wales. It is home to the Principality Premiership team, PontyPRidd RFC and previously the Celtic Warriors, the now defunct regional rugby union team. It’s commonly known as the “House of Pain”
Visit Church Village plaques
4 plaques hereChurch Village has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Church Village 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 Church Village using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Church Village plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Church Village audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Church Village allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Church Village’s 39 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Church Village freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Church Village Map App
Our visit Church Village map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Church Village & 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 Church Village tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Church Village centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Church Village area at LONG:-3.321605, LAT:51.56992.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Church Village, 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 Church Village / surrounding areas
● Tonteg ● Church Village ● Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg ● Upper Church Village ● Hawthorn, Rhondda Cynon Taf ● Hawthorn Greyhound Track ● Upper Boat ● Pontypridd Town A.F.C. ● Rhydyfelin ● Efail Isaf ● Llantwit Fardre ● Nantgarw Colliery ● Taff-Ely ● Calvert’s Engine ● Maendy Quarry ● University of Glamorgan ● Nantgarw ● Eglwysilan ● Mynydd Meio ● Garth Hill ● Glyntaff ● St Mary’s Church, Glyntaff ● Beddau ● Maesycoed ● Pontypridd RFC ● Graig, Pontypridd ● Dewi Sant Hospital ● Rhondda line ● Pontypridd ● Ynysangharad Park
● Ynysangharad War Memorial ● Pontypridd Cottage Hospital ● Pen-y-coedcae ● Castellau ● Upper Boat Studios ● Treforest ● Treforest tinplate works
Getting to / around Church Village – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Church Village using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Church Village places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Church Village Public Transport Stations
Church Village Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Tonteg Halt railway station
Church Village Halt railway station
Upper Boat power station
Treforest Estate railway station
Upper Boat Halt railway station
Efail Isaf railway station
Upper Boat railway station
Dynea Halt railway station
Llantwit Fardre railway station
Groeswen Halt railway station
Treforest High Level railway station
Rhydyfelin (High Level) Halt railway station
Nantgarw (Low Level) Halt railway station
Treforest railway station
Beddau Halt railway station
Pontypridd Graig railway station
Pontypridd railway station
Pontypridd Tram Road railway station
Glyntaff Halt railway station
Nantgarw (High Level) Halt railway station
Sardis Road
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Local Church Village historians & Church Village tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Church Village? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Church Village’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 Church Village 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 Church Village 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 Church Village 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-Church Village’ web pages (for example: www.visitChurch Village.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 Church Village places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Church Village places to visit. A unique way to experience Church Village’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Church Village as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Church Village places with Walkfo Church Village to hear history at Church Village’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Church Village has 39 places to visit in our interactive Church Village 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 Church Village, 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 Church Village places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Church Village & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Church Village?