Pant

Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of , 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.
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  • Type: Village with 2,530 residents
  • Description: village and community in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Pant Cadifor”, “Pant, Merthyr Tydfil”, and “Pantcadivor”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Morlais Castle and Pant railway station.

Ruins
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is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of in .

Railway station
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was a station which served Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, in the historic Welsh county of , now . 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.

Railway station
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serves the town of in . It is the northern terminus of the Merthyr branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. is situated 2 miles southwest of Pant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merthyr Tydfil and Gurnos.

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is a town and County Borough in South Wales in the historic county of on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Suburb
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is a community of in , United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Estate. The population in 2011 was 5,280.

Suburb
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is a in the north-east of in South East Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh words du and glais. is notable within Wales and within as a whole, for its historic association with ironworking; once employing, through the Iron Company, over 7,000 people, the works being at one stage the largest in the world.

Pant

Latitude
51.7728° or 51° 46′ 22″ north
Longitude
-3.3564° or 3° 21′ 23″ west
Population
2,530
Elevation
1,224 feet (373 metres)
Open location code
9C3RQJFV+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4210805121
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7299211
Wiki­data ID
Q7131617
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Pant” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Pant”
  • Bengali: “প্যান্ট”
  • Catalan: “Pant”
  • Cebuano: “Pant (komunidad)”
  • Cebuano: “Pant”
  • Chinese: “潘特 (梅瑟蒂德菲爾)”
  • Chinese: “潘特”
  • Cornish: “Pant”
  • Dutch: “Pant”
  • French: “Pant”
  • German: “Pant”
  • Gujarati: “પંત”
  • Irish: “Pant”
  • Japanese: “パント”
  • Kannada: “ಪಂತ್”
  • Korean: “판트”
  • Lithuanian: “Pantas”
  • Portuguese: “Pant”
  • Russian: “Пант”
  • Spanish: “Pant”
  • Swedish: “Pant, Merthyr Tydfil”
  • Swedish: “Pant”
  • Tamil: “பான்ட்”
  • Telugu: “పంత్”
  • Urdu: “پینٹ”
  • Welsh: “Pant (Merthyr)”
  • Welsh: “Pant Cadifor”
  • Welsh: “Pant, Merthyr Tudful”
  • Welsh: “Pant”
  • Welsh: “Pantysgallog”

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