Visit Rhigos Places

Welcome to Visit Rhigos Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Rhigos

  

Rhigos Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Rhigos

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Rhigos etymology

The name Rhigos is an erroneous standardisation of the local dialect form of Ricos. The ‘correct’ form of the name is ‘Y Rugos’, a name found in other parts of Wales (also as Y Grugos)

You can visit Rhigos places with Walkfo Rhigos to hear history at Rhigos’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Rhigos has 16 places to visit in our interactive Rhigos 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 Rhigos, 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 Rhigos places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Rhigos & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 16 audio facts unique to Rhigos places in an interactive Rhigos map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Rhigos Places Map
16 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Rhigos historic spots	Rhigos tourist destinations	Rhigos plaques	Rhigos geographic features
Walkfo Rhigos tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Rhigos

  

Best Rhigos places to visit

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Rhigos has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Rhigos’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Rhigos’s information audio spots:

River Mellte River Mellte is formed by the confluence of Afon Llia and the Afon Dringarth. It flows south through the village of Ystradfellte to Pontneddfechan where it joins the River Neath. The river derives its name from ‘mellt’ – the Welsh word for ‘lightning’

Rhigos Rhigos is a small village on the saddle of higher ground between the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley. It was part of the old Neath Rural district Council under Glamorgan until 1974. The population of the community in the 2011 census was noted as 894. For postal purposes it comes under the town of Aberdare.

Tower Colliery Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa’r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the UK. It was located near the villages of Hirwaun and Rhigos, north of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley of South Wales.

Dinas Rock Dinas Rock (Welsh: Craig y Ddinas, “Fortress Rock”) is a high promontory of Carboniferous Limestone. It rises between Afon Mellte and its left-bank tributary, the Afon Sychryd. It derives its name from the presence of Iron Age earthworks on its summit.

Foel Chwern Foel Chwern is a Bronze Age burial monument dating to the Bronze Age. It is sited on the edge of a steep scarp slope, with a wide field of view to the north. The long distance footpath Coed Morgannwg Way runs close by the cairn.

Craig y Llyn Craig y Llyn (Welsh, ‘rock/cliff of the lake’) is a mountain situated to the south of the village of Rhigos in the Cynon Valley. It is the highest point in the traditional county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg) and the South Wales Valleys.

Llyn Fawr Llyn Fawr is one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales Coalfield uplands. It is known as the site of an important hoard of weapons and tools from the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. It lies on the northern flanks of Craig-y-Llyn, a mountain designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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