Nelson
Nelson is a village and community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales. It sits five miles north of Caerphilly and ten miles north of Cardiff, at the lower end of the Taff Bargoed Valley, and lies adjacent to Treharris, Trelewis and Quakers Yard.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,650 residents
- Description: village and community in the county borough of Caerphilly, Wales
- Also known as: “Nelson, Caerphilly” and “Nelson, Wales”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nelson Library and The Royal Oak.
Llancaiach Fawr
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Llancaiach Fawr Manor is a Tudor manor house near the village of Nelson, located just to the north of the site of the former Llancaiach Colliery in the heart of the Rhymney Valley in South Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quakers Yard and Trelewis.
Quakers Yard
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quakers Yard or Quaker's Yard is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins the Taff Valley. The settlement is part of the community of Treharris.
Trelewis
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trelewis is a small village in the Taff Bargoed Valley of south-east Wales, currently located in the southern part of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. It is a former mining village and together with nearby Bedlinog was until 1974 part of the Gelligaer Urban District Council area of the county of Glamorgan.
Treharris
Town
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Treharris is a town and community in the Taff Bargoed Valley in the south of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, South Wales. It is located about 0.6 miles west of Trelewis, from which it is separated by the Taff Bargoed river, and 0.9 miles from Nelson in Caerphilly county borough and has a population of 6,356 from the 2011 Census.
Nelson
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.65125° or 51° 39′ 5″ northLongitude
-3.28271° or 3° 16′ 58″ westPopulation
4,650Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)Open location code
9C3RMP28+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4015505514OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2641811Wikidata ID
Q3403439
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Nelson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nelson”
- Catalan: “Ffos y Gerddine”
- Catalan: “Ffos-y-Gerddine”
- Catalan: “Nelson”
- Cebuano: “Nelson”
- Chinese: “Nelson”
- Chinese: “奶路臣”
- Chinese: “纳尔逊”
- Cornish: “Nelson”
- Dutch: “Nelson”
- French: “Nelson”
- German: “Nelson”
- Irish: “Nelson”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nelson (Caerphilly)”
- Scots: “Nelson”
- Spanish: “Nelson”
- Swedish: “Nelson, Wales”
- Swedish: “Nelson”
- Welsh: “Ffos y Gerddinen”
- Welsh: “Nelson, Caerffili”
- Welsh: “Nelson”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nelson Post Office and Calfaria Baptist Church.
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