Porthkerry
Porthkerry is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies on the Bristol Channel coast of South Wales within the community of Rhoose between that village and the town of Barry to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Glamorgan, UK
- Also known as: “Porthceri”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porthkerry Viaduct and Cardiff Airport.
Porthkerry Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Jeremy Segrott, CC BY 2.0.
Porthkerry Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The viaduct was designed and engineered by James Szlumper and William Szlumper, and was contracted to the Pethick Brothers to be built in the late nineteenth century in order to carry the Vale of Glamorgan Railway between Tondu via Coity Junction Bridgend and Barry Docks.
Cardiff Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Rob Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cardiff Airport is an airport in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, to the south-west of Cardiff. It is the only airport offering commercial passenger services and cargo services in Wales.
Barry Castle
Ruins
Photo: Mudforce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barry Castle is a small Grade II* listed ruined two-storey gatehouse with the adjacent walls of a hall in the Romilly district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cold Knap and Cwm Talwg.
Cwm Talwg
Suburb
Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cwm Talwg is a north-western district and large housing estate complex within the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan ten miles outside Cardiff in south Wales. Cwm Talwg is situated 1½ miles northeast of Porthkerry.
Font-y-gary
Suburb
Photo: Vincent Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Font-y-Gary, also Fontygary, Fontegary or Fontygari, is a village adjacent to Rhoose, 3 miles south-west of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, on the coast of South Wales. Font-y-gary is situated 2 miles west of Porthkerry.
Porthkerry
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39157° or 51° 23′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.3194° or 3° 19′ 10″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C3R9MRJ+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 747069014OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Porthkerry” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Porthkerry”
- French: “Porthkerry”
- German: “Porthceri”
- German: “Porthkerry”
- Irish: “Porthceri”
- Welsh: “Porthceri”
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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 “Porthkerry”. Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.