Welcome to Visit Graigwen Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Graigwen
Visit Graigwen places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Graigwen places to visit. A unique way to experience Graigwen’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Graigwen as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Graigwen Walkfo Preview Graigwen (English translation = White-Rock) is the name of the large hill (Graigwen Hill) and the village or district located thereon. It is sited to the north of Pontypridd town centre and south of Glyncoch and Ynysybwl in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. When you visit Graigwen, Walkfo brings Graigwen places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Graigwen Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Graigwen
Visit Graigwen – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 51 audio plaques & Graigwen places for you to explore in the Graigwen area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Graigwen places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Graigwen with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Graigwen places with Walkfo Graigwen to hear history at Graigwen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Graigwen has 51 places to visit in our interactive Graigwen 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 Graigwen, 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 Graigwen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Graigwen & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 51 audio facts unique to Graigwen places in an interactive Graigwen map you can explore.”
Walkfo Graigwen tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Graigwen
Best Graigwen places to visit
Graigwen has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Graigwen’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Graigwen’s information audio spots:
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.
Tabernacle, Ynysybwl Tabernacle, Ynysybwl is an Independent chapel in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The chapel is located in Other Street, in Other Street.
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.
Great Western Mine Great Western Mine, also known as Hetty Pit, was a coal mine, at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan in South Wales.
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.
Rhondda Heritage Park Rhondda Heritage Park is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery.
Universal Colliery Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of Caerphilly. Started in 1891, it became a ventilation facility for the Windsor Colliery in 1928 before complete closure in 1988.
Cefn Eglwysilan Cefn Eglwysilan is a hill in South Wales, the twin 382m summits of which lie 2 km east of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Its eastern side lies within the community of Aber Valley in Caerphilly county borough.
Visit Graigwen plaques
7 plaques hereGraigwen has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Graigwen 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 Graigwen using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Graigwen plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Graigwen audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Graigwen allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Graigwen’s 51 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Graigwen freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Graigwen Map App
Our visit Graigwen map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Graigwen & 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 Graigwen tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Graigwen centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Graigwen area at LONG:-3.33658, LAT:51.61188.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Graigwen, 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 Graigwen – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Graigwen using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Graigwen places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Graigwen Public Transport Stations
Graigwen Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dynea Halt railway station
Treforest High Level railway station
Rhydyfelin (High Level) Halt railway station
Treforest railway station
Abercynon railway station
Abercynon North railway station
Pontypridd Graig railway station
Pontypridd railway station
Pontypridd Tram Road railway station
Glyntaff Halt railway station
Trehafod railway station
Cilfynydd railway station
Clydach Court Halt railway station
Coedpenmaen railway station
Sardis Road
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Local Graigwen historians & Graigwen tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Graigwen? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Graigwen’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 Graigwen 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 Graigwen 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 Graigwen 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-Graigwen’ web pages (for example: www.visitGraigwen.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 Graigwen places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Graigwen places to visit. A unique way to experience Graigwen’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Graigwen as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Graigwen places with Walkfo Graigwen to hear history at Graigwen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Graigwen has 51 places to visit in our interactive Graigwen 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 Graigwen, 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 Graigwen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Graigwen & the surrounding areas.
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