Coryton
Coryton is a district of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, lying immediately to the north of Whitchurch next to junction 32 of the M4 motorway. It is within the Whitchurch & Tongwynlais electoral ward.- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Coryton, Cardiff”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coryton railway station and Whitchurch railway station.
Coryton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Aled Betts, CC BY 2.0.
Coryton railway station serves Coryton and Pantmawr in Cardiff, Wales. It is the terminus of the Coryton Line 5 miles north of Cardiff Central via Cardiff Queen Street. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
Whitchurch railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitchurch railway station is a railway station serving Whitchurch, Cardiff, Wales. It is located on the Coryton Line 4.5 miles north of Cardiff Central and is situated beneath the A470 road.
Castell Coch
Photo: Hchc2009, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff and control the route along the River Taff.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Radyr and Whitchurch.
Radyr
Suburb
Radyr is an outer suburb of Cardiff, about 4 miles northwest of Cardiff city centre. Radyr is part of Radyr and Morganstown Community, for which the 2011 Census recorded a population of 6,417. Morganstown is north of Radyr, on the other side of the M4 Motorway.
Whitchurch
Suburb
Photo: Welshleprechaun, Public domain.
Whitchurch is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is approximately 3 miles north of the centre of the city on the A470 road and A4054 road.
Morganstown
Suburb
Photo: Robin Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morganstown is a part of the community of Radyr and Morganstown in the north of Cardiff, just over 5 miles northwest of Cardiff city centre and separated from Radyr to the south by the M4 motorway.
Coryton
- Category: locality
- Location: Whitchurch, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.52365° or 51° 31′ 25″ northLongitude
-3.23458° or 3° 14′ 5″ westElevation
144 feet (44 metres)Open location code
9C3RGQF8+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 291886273OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Coryton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coryton”
- Irish: “Coryton”
- Japanese: “コリトン”
- Welsh: “Coryton, Caerdydd”
- Welsh: “Coryton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Coryton Primary School and Pantmawr Cemetery.
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