Caerau
Caerau is a former mining village in the community of Maesteg, Bridgend County Borough, Wales, located approximately 2 miles north of the centre of Maesteg town in the Llynfi Valley.Photo: eswales, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Caerau, Bridgend”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maesteg railway station and Maesteg railway station.
Maesteg railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maesteg railway station is one of two railway stations that serves the town of Maesteg in Wales. The British Rail 1992 built station is located in the centre of the town, adjacent to the Asda Supermarket store and on former sidings 8+1⁄4 miles north of Bridgend. Maesteg railway station is situated 2 miles south of Caerau.
Maesteg railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maesteg railway station is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Maesteg in Wales. It is located adjacent to the Ewenny Road Industrial Estate to the south of Maesteg on the Maesteg Line from Cardiff via Bridgend. Maesteg railway station is situated 2 miles south of Caerau.
Cymer Afan Comprehensive School
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Cymer Afan Comprehensive School was a comprehensive school, located in Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It offered mixed-sex education to around 200 pupils aged 11–16.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Croeserw and Cymmer.
Croeserw
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croeserw is a village of approximately 1,380 inhabitants in Gwynfi and Croeserw, Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
Cymmer
Village
Cymmer is a small village in the community of Cymer and Glyncorrwg, in Neath Port Talbot in Wales, set on a hillside in the Afan Valley near the confluence of the River Afan and the River Corrwg. In 2001, Cymmer had a population of 2,883.
Abercregan
Hamlet
Abercregan is a village in the community of Cymer and Glyncorrwg, in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Glamorgan. It is situated around 12 kilometres north-east of Port Talbot and just west of Cymmer, and is also close to the River Afan.
Caerau
- Category: locality
- Location: Maesteg, County Borough of Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.63601° or 51° 38′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.65544° or 3° 39′ 20″ westElevation
604 feet (184 metres)Open location code
9C3RJ8PV+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 7575572487OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Caerau” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Caerau”
- Dutch: “Caerau”
- French: “Caerau”
- Welsh: “Caerau, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Welsh: “Caerau”
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