Welcome to Visit Gwaelod-y-Garth Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gwaelod-y-Garth
Visit Gwaelod-y-Garth places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gwaelod-y-Garth places to visit. A unique way to experience Gwaelod-y-Garth’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gwaelod-y-Garth as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Gwaelod-y-Garth Walkfo Preview Gwaelod-y-garth (Welsh for Foot of the Garth) is a village in the community of Pentyrch, Cardiff in Wales. When you visit Gwaelod-y-Garth, Walkfo brings Gwaelod-y-Garth places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gwaelod-y-Garth Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gwaelod-y-Garth
Visit Gwaelod-y-Garth – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 38 audio plaques & Gwaelod-y-Garth places for you to explore in the Gwaelod-y-Garth area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gwaelod-y-Garth places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Gwaelod-y-Garth history
The Pentyrch Iron Works was opened in Gwaelod-y-Garth in 1740. It supplied iron to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works in Whitchurch. The forge from the ironworks was demolished in 1977 and the site is now used for housing.
Why visit Gwaelod-y-Garth with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gwaelod-y-Garth places with Walkfo Gwaelod-y-Garth to hear history at Gwaelod-y-Garth’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gwaelod-y-Garth has 38 places to visit in our interactive Gwaelod-y-Garth 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth, 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gwaelod-y-Garth & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Gwaelod-y-Garth tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gwaelod-y-Garth
Best Gwaelod-y-Garth places to visit
Gwaelod-y-Garth has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gwaelod-y-Garth’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gwaelod-y-Garth’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.
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.
Craig-y-parc House Craig-y-parc House is a Grade II* listed building in Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales. It was built for Thomas Evans, a colliery owner, by Charles Edward Mallows. The house now operates as a residential school for children and young adults with disabilities.
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.
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.
Caerphilly District Miners Hospital Caerphilly District Miners’ Hospital (Welsh: Ysbytyty’r Glowyr Caerffili) was a community hospital in Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
Visit Gwaelod-y-Garth plaques
0 plaques hereGwaelod-y-Garth has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gwaelod-y-Garth 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gwaelod-y-Garth plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Gwaelod-y-Garth audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Gwaelod-y-Garth allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Gwaelod-y-Garth’s 38 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Gwaelod-y-Garth freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Gwaelod-y-Garth Map App
Our visit Gwaelod-y-Garth map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Gwaelod-y-Garth & 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Gwaelod-y-Garth centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Gwaelod-y-Garth area at LONG:-3.2766, LAT:51.5472.
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Things to do & visit in Gwaelod-y-Garth / surrounding areas
● Tonteg ● Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg ● Upper Boat ● Pontypridd Town A.F.C. ● Efail Isaf ● Nantgarw Colliery ● Nantgarw ● Garth Hill ● Radyr Golf Club ● Radyr Hydro Scheme ● Creigiau & St Fagans ● Morganstown ● Rhydlafar ● Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar ● Llwynda-Ddu Camp ● Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve ● Ainon Baptist Church (Tongwynlais) ● St David’s Church, Nottage ● Tongwynlais ● Castell Coch ● Walnut Tree Viaduct ● Parc-y-Dwrlyn Ground ● Coryton, Cardiff ● Pentyrch ● Craig-y-parc House ● Taff’s Well Thermal Spring ● Wenallt Hill ● Wenallt Camp ● Fforestganol a Chwm Nofydd ● Taff’s Well A.F.C.
● Gwaelod-y-Garth ● Caerphilly District Miners Hospital ● Upper Boat Studios ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Tongwynlais ● Taff’s Well ● Twmpath Castle
Getting to / around Gwaelod-y-Garth – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Gwaelod-y-Garth using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Gwaelod-y-Garth places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Gwaelod-y-Garth historians & Gwaelod-y-Garth tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Gwaelod-y-Garth? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Gwaelod-y-Garth’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 Gwaelod-y-Garth 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth 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 Gwaelod-y-Garth 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-Gwaelod-y-Garth’ web pages (for example: www.visitGwaelod-y-Garth.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