Gilfach Goch
Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village mostly in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, near the larger community of Tonyrefail.Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tonypandy railway station and Dinas Rhondda railway station.
Tonypandy railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tonypandy railway station is a railway station serving the town of Tonypandy in south Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line. The station cannot be directly accessed from Tonypandy, a scenic bridge over the river Rhondda must be used as the station adjoins a mountain. Tonypandy railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Gilfach Goch.
Dinas Rhondda railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ivan Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dinas Rhondda railway station is a railway station serving the Dinas, Penygraig and Trealaw districts of Tonypandy, Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line. Dinas Rhondda railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Gilfach Goch.
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
Town hall
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council is the governing body for Rhondda Cynon Taf, one of the principal areas of Wales. The council headquarters are at the Llys Cadwyn development in Pontypridd. Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council is situated 2 miles north of Gilfach Goch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Williamstown and Penygraig.
Williamstown
Suburb
Williamstown is a village in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. Williamstown was founded in the 1870s, is located at the foot of Mynydd Dinas and is a district of neighbouring village Penygraig. Williamstown is situated 1½ miles northeast of Gilfach Goch.
Penygraig
Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penygraig is a village and community in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. As a community Penygraig contains the neighbouring districts of Dinas, Edmondstown, Penrhiwfer and Williamstown. Penygraig is situated 1½ miles northeast of Gilfach Goch.
Tonyrefail
Town
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tonyrefail is a village and community in the Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough, Wales. It is situated at the head of the River Ely; 4 miles northwest of Llantrisant, about 1.5 miles from Trebanog and about 2 miles from Williamstown. Tonyrefail is situated 2 miles east of Gilfach Goch.
Gilfach Goch
- Type: Village with 1,920 residents
- Description: village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Gilfach Goch, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.59358° or 51° 35′ 37″ northLongitude
-3.4714° or 3° 28′ 17″ westPopulation
1,920Elevation
682 feet (208 metres)Open location code
9C3RHGVH+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 702968878OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648670Wikidata ID
Q3401786
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Gilfach Goch” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gilfach Goch”
- Bengali: “গিলফেক গচ”
- Catalan: “Y Gilfach-goch”
- Cebuano: “Gilfach Goch”
- Chinese: “Gilfach Goch”
- Chinese: “吉法赫哥赫”
- Cornish: “Y Gilfach-goch”
- Dutch: “Gilfach Goch”
- Finnish: “Gilfach Goch”
- French: “Gilfach Goch”
- German: “Gilfach Goch”
- Gujarati: “ગિલફેક ગોચ”
- Irish: “Y Gilfach-goch”
- Japanese: “ジルファック・ゴック”
- Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಫಾಚ್ ಗೊಚ್”
- Korean: “길파치 고흐”
- Lithuanian: “Gilfač Gočas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gilfach Goch”
- Persian: “گیلفچ گوک”
- Portuguese: “Gilfach Goch”
- Russian: “Гилфак-Гок”
- Scots: “Gilfach Goch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Y Gilfach-goch”
- Spanish: “Gilfach Goch”
- Swedish: “Gilfach Goch”
- Tamil: “கிளபாச் கோச்”
- Telugu: “గిల్ఫచ్ గోచ్”
- Urdu: “جیلفاچ گوچ”
- Welsh: “Gilfach Goch”
- Welsh: “Gilfach-goch”
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