Pontsticill
Pontsticill is a village within the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It lies within the valley of the Taf Fechan on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wales
- Also known as: “Pont Sticill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pontsticill railway station and Pant railway station.
Pontsticill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontsticill railway station is an intermediate station on the Brecon Mountain Railway at Pontsticill, in the historic Welsh county of Brecknockshire, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.
Pant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant railway station was a station which served Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, in the historic Welsh county of Glamorgan, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. It was the junction at which the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Railway line from Pontsticill in the North split to serve the Dowlais Central and Dowlais Top lines.
Morlais Castle
Ruins
Photo: Gibbinskaren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pant and Gurnos.
Pant
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
Gurnos
Suburb
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate. The population in 2011 was 5,280. Gurnos is situated 2 miles south of Pontsticill.
Dowlais
Suburb
Photo: Varitek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dowlais is a village and community of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh du meaning 'black' and glais meaning 'stream'. Dowlais is situated 2 miles south of Pontsticill.
Pontsticill
- Category: locality
- Location: Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7917° or 51° 47′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.36902° or 3° 22′ 9″ westElevation
1,142 feet (348 metres)Open location code
9C3RQJRJ+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2963554243OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pontsticill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pontsticill”
- Dutch: “Pontsticill”
- French: “Pontsticill”
- Irish: “Pontsticill”
- Welsh: “Pontsticill”
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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 “Pontsticill”. Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.