Bridgend
Bridgend is a town in Glamorgan, South Wales. It is the principal town of the County Borough of Bridgend and has a population of around 40,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 46,800 residents
- Description: town in Bridgend County Borough, Wales
- Also known as: “Pen-y-Bont” and “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bridgend railway station and Wildmill railway station.
Bridgend railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paulharding150, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bridgend railway station is a main line station serving the town of Bridgend, south Wales. It is located approximately halfway between Cardiff Central and Swansea stations, at the point where the Maesteg Line diverges from the South Wales Main Line; it is also the western terminus of the Vale of Glamorgan Line from Cardiff.
Wildmill railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wildmill railway station is a railway station serving the district of Wildmill, Bridgend, South Wales. It is located on the Maesteg Line from Cardiff via Bridgend.
Brewery Field
Stadium
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunraven Brewery Field is an 8,000 capacity sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales. It is the home ground of the rugby union team Bridgend Ravens. Bridgend Athletic RFC often use the ground for their home matches, as well as the Ospreys who have had selected matches in the past and will use the stadium for all their home games of the 2025-26 season.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coity and Pen-y-fai.
Coity
Village
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coity is a village in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales, part of Bridgend town urban area. Coity is part of the community of Coity Higher and is notable for being home to Coity Castle, one of the best-preserved castles in Glamorgan.
Pen-y-fai
Village
Photo: Chris Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pen-y-fai is a village in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales within the Bridgend electoral ward area and the community of Newcastle Higher. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 2,447.
Merthyr Mawr
Village
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
Merthyr Mawr is a village and community in Bridgend, Wales. The village is about 2+1⁄2 miles from the centre of Bridgend town. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 267.
Bridgend
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: County Borough of Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.505° or 51° 30′ 18″ northLongitude
-3.5757° or 3° 34′ 32″ westPopulation
46,800Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BRGOpen location code
9C3RGC3F+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 262473512OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bridgend” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريدجند”
- Asturian: “Bridgend”
- Asturian: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Basque: “Bridgend”
- Basque: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Breton: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Bulgarian: “Бридженд”
- Catalan: “Bridgend”
- Cebuano: “Bridgend (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Bridgend”
- Chinese: “布里真德”
- Chinese: “布里真德市”
- Cornish: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Czech: “Bridgend”
- Danish: “Bridgend”
- Dutch: “Bridgend”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريدجند”
- Esperanto: “Bridgend”
- Esperanto: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Estonian: “Bridgend”
- French: “Bridgend”
- Galician: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- German: “Bridgend”
- Greek: “Μπρίτζεντ”
- Hebrew: “ברידג’אנד”
- Indonesian: “Bridgend”
- Irish: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Italian: “Bridgend”
- Japanese: “ブリジェンド”
- Japanese: “ブリッジェンド”
- Korean: “브리젠드”
- Latvian: “Bridženda”
- Lithuanian: “Bridžendas”
- Northern Frisian: “Bridgend”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bridgend”
- Norwegian: “Bridgend”
- Persian: “بریجند”
- Polish: “Bridgend”
- Portuguese: “Bridgend”
- Romanian: “Bridgend”
- Russian: “Бридженд”
- Scots: “Bridgend”
- Scots: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Slovak: “Bridgend”
- Slovenian: “Bridgend”
- Slovenian: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریجند”
- Spanish: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Spanish: “Bridgend”
- Swedish: “Bridgend”
- Tatar: “Бриҗенд”
- Turkish: “Bridgend”
- Ukrainian: “Бридженд”
- Urdu: “برجینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Bridgend”
- Vietnamese: “Bridgend”
- Welsh: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
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