Welcome to Visit Merthyr Vale Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Merthyr Vale
Visit Merthyr Vale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Merthyr Vale places to visit. A unique way to experience Merthyr Vale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Merthyr Vale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Merthyr Vale Walkfo Preview Merthyr Vale lies on the east bank of the River Taff. The community includes the villages of Aberfan, Mount Pleasant and Mount Pleasant. When you visit Merthyr Vale, Walkfo brings Merthyr Vale places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Merthyr Vale – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 42 audio plaques & Merthyr Vale places for you to explore in the Merthyr Vale area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Merthyr Vale places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Merthyr Vale history
Merthyr Vale was known as Ynys Owen as early as 1630, with various traditional longhouse (tyddyn) farms marking out rural territories. There had been small scale coal extraction at Danyderi and Perthygleision, but in 1869 John Nixon started development of the Taff Colliery. The village immediately grew up around the shaft development, as did the later communities of Aberfan, Nixonville and Mount Pleasant.
Why visit Merthyr Vale with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Merthyr Vale places with Walkfo Merthyr Vale to hear history at Merthyr Vale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Merthyr Vale has 42 places to visit in our interactive Merthyr Vale 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 Merthyr Vale, 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 Merthyr Vale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Merthyr Vale & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Merthyr Vale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Merthyr Vale
Best Merthyr Vale places to visit
Merthyr Vale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Merthyr Vale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Merthyr Vale’s information audio spots:
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.
Mynydd Merthyr Mynydd Merthyr is a broad ridge of high ground between Taff Vale (Welsh Cwm Taf) and the Cwm Cynon in the Valleys region of South Wales. It forms the boundary between the unitary authorities of Rhondda Cynon Taff to the west and Merthyrs Tydfil to the east. The high point of 493m is at Mynyd Gethin (OS grid reference SO 044025) The ridge includes subsidiary summits of Twyn Brynbychan and Twyn Sych.
Deep Navigation Colliery Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991. Producing the highest quality steam coal, it powered both the Cunard passenger steamers RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania in their successful attempts at the Blue Riband prize for the most rapid Atlantic Ocean passage.
Treharris Athletic Western F.C. Treharris Athletic Western F.C. play in the Ardal Leagues South West. Their home ground is based in Parc Taf Bargoed in the neighbouring village of Trelewis.
Mountain Ash General Hospital Mountain Ash General Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Cyffredinol Mountain Ash) was a health facility on Duffryn Road, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf. It was managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Ysbyty Cwm Cynon Ysbyty Cwm Cynon (English: Cynon Valley Hospital) is a health facility on New Road, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Aberfan Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan] is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley. It became known for the Aberfan disaster, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
Penrhiwceiber Rangers F.C. Penrhiwceiber Rangers F.C play in the Ardal Leagues South West. The Welsh club were formed in 1961.
Visit Merthyr Vale plaques
1 plaques hereMerthyr Vale has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Merthyr Vale 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 Merthyr Vale using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Merthyr Vale plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Merthyr Vale audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Merthyr Vale allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Merthyr Vale’s 42 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Merthyr Vale freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Merthyr Vale Map App
Our visit Merthyr Vale map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Merthyr Vale & 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 Merthyr Vale tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Merthyr Vale centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Merthyr Vale area at LONG:-3.3396, LAT:51.69111.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Merthyr Vale, 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 Merthyr Vale – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Merthyr Vale using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Merthyr Vale places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Merthyr Vale Public Transport Stations
Merthyr Vale Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Troed-y-rhiw railway station
Quakers Yard railway station
Mountain Ash railway station
Fernhill railway station
Aberfan railway station
Penrhiwceiber railway station
Merthyr Vale railway station
Bedlinog railway station
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Local Merthyr Vale historians & Merthyr Vale tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Merthyr Vale? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Merthyr Vale’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 Merthyr Vale 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 Merthyr Vale 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 Merthyr Vale 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-Merthyr Vale’ web pages (for example: www.visitMerthyr Vale.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 Merthyr Vale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Merthyr Vale places to visit. A unique way to experience Merthyr Vale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Merthyr Vale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Merthyr Vale places with Walkfo Merthyr Vale to hear history at Merthyr Vale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Merthyr Vale has 42 places to visit in our interactive Merthyr Vale 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 Merthyr Vale, 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 Merthyr Vale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Merthyr Vale & the surrounding areas.
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