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


Visit Trealaw PlacesVisit Trealaw places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Trealaw places to visit. A unique way to experience Trealaw’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Trealaw as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Trealaw is a long village, also a community and electoral ward in Rhondda Valley, Wales. It stretches over two miles from the junction of Cemetery Road and Brithweunydd Road in the east to the northwest. When you visit Trealaw, Walkfo brings Trealaw places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Trealaw Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Trealaw


Visit Trealaw – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 49 audio plaques & Trealaw places for you to explore in the Trealaw area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Trealaw places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Trealaw history


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Trealaw is a dormitory town of the more famous Tonypandy. Its name translates from the Welsh language as ‘the Town of Alaw’, which derives from Alaw Goch or Alaw Coch (red melody) Its name is the bardic name of David (Dafydd) Williams (d. 1863) the father of Judge Gwilym Williams (1839–1906), who founded the village during the ‘coal-rush’ of the 19th century.

Why visit Trealaw with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Trealaw PlacesYou can visit Trealaw places with Walkfo Trealaw to hear history at Trealaw’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Trealaw has 49 places to visit in our interactive Trealaw 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 Trealaw, 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 Trealaw places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Trealaw & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 49 audio facts unique to Trealaw places in an interactive Trealaw map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Trealaw Places Map
49 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Trealaw historic spots

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Walkfo Trealaw tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Trealaw

  

Best Trealaw places to visit


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

Trealaw photo Ton Pentre F.C.
Ton Pentre Football Club plays in the Ardal Leagues South West, the third level of Welsh league football. Nicknamed the “Rhondda Bulldogs”, the team plays at Ynys Park, Ton Pente, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Trealaw photo Ystradyfodwg
Ystradyfodwg was an ancient upland parish in Glamorgan, Wales. It is believed to have been named after a 6th-century saint or chieftain. The Parish included most of the area which would later be known as Rhondda.
Trealaw photo River Cynon
River Cynon (Welsh: Afon Cynon) in South Wales is a main tributary of the Taff. Its source is the rising of Llygad Cynon at Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taf and flows roughly southeast. The water emerging at the Cynon is traced back to the sink of the Nant Cadlan at Ogof Fawr.
Trealaw photo District of Rhondda
Rhondda was one of six local government districts of Mid Glamorgan from 1974 to 1996. The district was created from parts of Ystradyfodwg, Llanwonno and Llantrisant parishes in 1877. It was renamed Rhondada Urban District in 1897 after the River Rhonda.
Trealaw photo Cambrian Colliery
Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967. It is notable for its huge production and for two infamous explosion disasters, in 1905 and 1965, in which a total of 64 miners were killed.
Trealaw photo Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda
Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda is a health facility on Partridge Road, Llwynypia. It is managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Trealaw photo Llwynypia Hospital
Llwynypia Hospital was a health facility in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It was managed by the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Trealaw photo Cambrian & Clydach Vale B.&G.C.
Cambrian & Clydach Vale Boys & Girls Club is a Welsh football club. The club was founded in 1965 as Cambrian United and joined the Welsh Football League in 2005. The side finished in promotion positions in Divisions Three and Two in successive seasons.
Trealaw photo St Anne’s Church, Ynyshir
St Anne’s Church is located in the Welsh village of Ynyshir in the Benefice of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley. It dates from the 1880s.
Trealaw photo Gilfach Goch
Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village in the Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It is situated in the Cwm Ogwr Fach (Small Ogmore Valley) near the larger community of Tonyrefail.

Visit Trealaw plaques


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Trealaw has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Trealaw 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 Trealaw using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Trealaw plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.