St Lythans
St Lythans is a hamlet and former parish in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just outside western Cardiff. It lies southwest of Culverhouse Cross, west of Wenvoe and southwest of Twyn-yr-Odyn and is also connected by road from Dyffryn and the Five Mile Lane in the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Llwyneliddon” and “Saint Lythans”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Bleiddian’s Church and St Lythans Burial Chamber.
St Lythans Burial Chamber
Archaeological site
Photo: Daicaregos, Public domain.
The St Lythans burial chamber is a single stone megalithic dolmen, built around 4000 BC as part of a chambered long barrow, during the mid Neolithic period, in what is now known as the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Dyffryn Gardens
Park
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twyn-yr-Odyn and Dyffryn.
Twyn-yr-Odyn
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twyn-yr-Odyn is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just beyond the territorial border of western Cardiff. It lies just southwest of Culverhouse Cross, very close to Wenvoe and St Lythans.
Dyffryn
Village
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dyffryn, often Duffryn, is a village in the communities of Wenvoe and St Nicholas and Bonvilston, in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is located 4.8 miles north of the town centre of Barry, roughly 1 mile west of St Lythans and 2 miles south of St.
St Andrews Major
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrews Major is a village and parish in the community of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, between Barry and Cardiff in south-eastern Wales. St Andrews Major is situated 2 miles southeast of St Lythans.
St Lythans
- Category: locality
- Location: Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44804° or 51° 26′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.28339° or 3° 17′ 0″ westElevation
377 feet (115 metres)Open location code
9C3RCPX8+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 10095655429OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“St Lythans” goes by many names.
- Basque: “St Lythans”
- Breton: “Llwyneliddon”
- Dutch: “St Lythans”
- French: “St Lythans”
- Hebrew: “סנט לייתנס”
- Irish: “Llwyneliddon”
- Welsh: “Llwyneliddon”
- Welsh: “St lythan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Lythans”. Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.