Dinas Powys
Dinas Powys is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Its name means "fort of the provincial place" and refers to the Iron Age hillfort which overlooks the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,740 residents
- Description: village and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
- Also known as: “Dinas Powis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dinas Powys railway station and Eastbrook railway station.
Dinas Powys railway station
Railway station
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Dinas Powys railway station is one of two railway stations serving the village of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located on Network Rail's Barry Branch 4½ miles south of Cardiff Central towards Barry Island and Bridgend.
Eastbrook railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eastbrook railway station is a railway station serving the Eastbrook area of Dinas Powys, a village near Cardiff, South Wales. It is located on Network Rail's Barry Branch 3+1⁄2 miles south of Cardiff Central towards Barry Island and Bridgend.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Michaelston-le-Pit and St Andrews Major.
Michaelston-le-Pit
Village
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Michaelston-le-Pit is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, just to the west of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It is part of the Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith community.
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.
Cog
Hamlet
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cog is a hamlet, which is situated 1½ miles south of Dinas Powys.
Dinas Powys
- Categories: village, community, and locality
- Location: Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.43349° or 51° 26′ 1″ northLongitude
-3.2135° or 3° 12′ 49″ westPopulation
7,740Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
9C3RCQMP+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 297839056OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2651248Wikidata ID
Q3403308
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Dinas Powys” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dinas Powys”
- Bengali: “ডিনাস পোজ”
- Breton: “Dinas Powys”
- Catalan: “Dinas Powys”
- Cebuano: “Dinas Powys”
- Chinese: “Dinas Powys”
- Chinese: “迪納斯波伊斯”
- Chinese: “迪納斯波厄斯”
- Chinese: “迪纳斯波伊斯”
- Chinese: “迪纳斯波厄斯”
- Cornish: “Dinas Powys”
- Czech: “Dinas Powys”
- Dutch: “Dinas Powys”
- French: “Dinas Powys”
- Galician: “Dinas Powys”
- German: “Dinas Powys”
- Gujarati: “દિનાસ પોવીસ”
- Indonesian: “Dinas Powys”
- Irish: “Dinas Powys”
- Italian: “Dinas Powys”
- Japanese: “ダイナズ・ポウィ―ズ”
- Kannada: “ದೀನಸ್ ಪೊವಿಸ್”
- Korean: “디나스 포이스”
- Lithuanian: “Dinas Povis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dinas Powys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dinas Powys”
- Norwegian: “Dinas Powys”
- Persian: “دیناس پویس”
- Portuguese: “Dinas Powys”
- Russian: “Динас-Пауис”
- Scots: “Dinas Powys”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dinas Powys”
- Spanish: “Dinas Powys”
- Swedish: “Dinas Powys”
- Tamil: “டினஸ் பௌய்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “దినాస్ పోవేస్”
- Urdu: “دیناس پوویس”
- Vietnamese: “Dinas Powys”
- Welsh: “Dinas Powys”
- “Dinas Powys”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dinas Powys Community Library and Bethesda Chapel.
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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 “Dinas Powys”. Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.