Welcome to Visit Pentrebach Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pentrebach
Visit Pentrebach places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Pentrebach places to visit. A unique way to experience Pentrebach’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Pentrebach as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Pentrebach Walkfo Preview Pentrebach is a village in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales. It lies on the east side of the River Taff opposite Abercanaid and north of Troedyrhiw. The village was founded at the time that John Guest built the Plymouth Ironworks in 1763. The South Duffryn Colliery was opened with two shafts which were 250 metres (820 ft) deep. When you visit Pentrebach, Walkfo brings Pentrebach places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Pentrebach Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pentrebach
Visit Pentrebach – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 39 audio plaques & Pentrebach places for you to explore in the Pentrebach area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Pentrebach places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Pentrebach with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Pentrebach places with Walkfo Pentrebach to hear history at Pentrebach’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pentrebach has 39 places to visit in our interactive Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach, 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 Pentrebach places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pentrebach & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Pentrebach tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Pentrebach
Best Pentrebach places to visit
Pentrebach has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Pentrebach’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Pentrebach’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.
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.
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.
Visit Pentrebach plaques
1 plaques herePentrebach has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Pentrebach plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Pentrebach audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Pentrebach allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Pentrebach’s 39 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Pentrebach freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Pentrebach Map App
Our visit Pentrebach map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Pentrebach & 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 Pentrebach tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Pentrebach centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Pentrebach area at LONG:-3.356667, LAT:51.725556.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Pentrebach, 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 Pentrebach / surrounding areas
● Cyfarthfa Ironworks ● Heolgerrig ● Joseph Parry’s Cottage ● Glamorganshire Canal ● Penydarren Park ● Bethesda, Merthyr Tydfil ● Penydarren ● Canolfan Soar ● Ynysgau Chapel, Merthyr Tydfil ● Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall ● St Tydfil’s Hospital ● Penydarren Ironworks ● The Wern ● Merthyr Synagogue ● 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 ● Penydarren B.G.C. ● St John’s Church, Dowlais ● Bethania, Dowlais ● Dowlais Ironworks ● Pontlottyn
● Taff Trail ● Aberfan ● Bedlinog ● Merthyr Tydfil County Borough ● Old Iron Bridge, Merthyr Tydfil ● Abercanaid ● Merthyr Tydfil
Getting to / around Pentrebach – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Pentrebach using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Pentrebach places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Pentrebach Public Transport Stations
Pentrebach Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Merthyr Tydfil bus station
Pentre-bach railway station
Abercanaid railway station
Troed-y-rhiw railway station
Merthyr Tydfil railway station
Cwm Bargoed railway station
Bedlinog railway station
A4060 road
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Local Pentrebach historians & Pentrebach tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Pentrebach? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Pentrebach’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 Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach 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 Pentrebach 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-Pentrebach’ web pages (for example: www.visitPentrebach.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