Dinas Powys (also spelt 'Dinas Powis') is a large village and a community in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales which takes its name from the Dinas Powys hillfort that dates from the Iron Age. The village is 5.6 miles (9.0 km) south-west of the centre of Cardiff and conveniently situated on the A4055 Cardiff to Barry main road. It is generally regarded as a pleasant dormitory village for Cardiff's commerce and industry commuters since the city has expanded with widespread development around the Cardiff Bay area.
Population: 7,738
Latitude: 51° 26' 5.50" N
Longitude: -3° 12' 50.33" W
Ogmore Vale (Welsh: Cwm Ogwr) is a village in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales on the River Ogmore. The village's main source of income came from coal mining. Up until the year 1865, the Ogmore valley was a quiet, isolated, rural hill farming c…
Nantgarw is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, near Cardiff.
Llandaff North (Welsh: Ystum Taf), is a community in the north of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.
Leigh Woods is a 2 square kilometre (490 acre) area of woodland on the south-west side of the Avon Gorge, opposite the English city of Bristol and north of the Ashton Court estate. It has been designated as a national nature reserve. Small mountain …
Kenfig Castle is a ruined castle in Bridgend County Borough in Wales that came to prominence after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Wales in the late eleventh century.
Heath (Welsh: Y Mynydd Bychan) is a community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales, originally called the Great Heath and named as a result of the large park and woodland that it once contained. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 cens…
Fairwater (Welsh: Y Tyllgoed) is a district in the west of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
Dyffryn Gardens (Welsh: Gerddi Dyffryn) is a collection of botanical gardens located near the villages of Dyffryn and St. Nicholas in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Cathays railway station is a station on the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda lines in the Cathays district of Cardiff, Wales. It is 1 1⁄4 miles (2 km) north of Cardiff Central.
Cardiff Heliport (ICAO: EGFC) is a heliport located in Tremorfa, Cardiff, Wales, approximately 2 miles (3.22 km) from the city centre.
HM Prison Cardiff is a Category B men's prison, located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, Wales.
Newport city centre is traditionally regarded as the area of Newport, Wales bounded by the west bank of the River Usk, the George Street Bridge, the eastern flank of Stow Hill and the South Wales Main Line. Most of the city centre is contained withi…
The Brynglas Tunnels carry the M4 motorway under Brynglas Hill in Newport, South Wales.
Brean Down Fort was built 60 feet (18 m) above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, 9 miles (14 km) south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.
Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.
Bassaleg (Welsh: Basaleg) is a small semi-urban suburb on the west side of the city of Newport, in south Wales.
The Afon Clun is a 14-mile (23 km) long tributary of the River Ely (Welsh: Afon Elai), in the counties of Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Its bedrock is predominantly of sandstone.
Gabalfa (English pronunciation: /ɡəˈbælvə/, Welsh pronunciation: [ɡaˈbalva]) is a district in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is characterised by an enormous fly over road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets t…