Cowbridge
Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, between Cardiff and Bridgend. It is set in the countryside, about 15 minutes' drive from the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Hodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,800 residents
- Description: market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Pontfaen” and “Y Bont-faen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Quintins Castle and Cowbridge Town Hall.
St Quintins Castle
Castle
Photo: cowbridgeguide.co.uk, CC BY 3.0.
St Quintins Castle is a castle located in the village of Llanblethian, Cowbridge, Wales. It is a scheduled monument and a Grade II* listed building and is under the care of Cadw.
Cowbridge Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cowbridge Town Hall is a public building in the High Street of Cowbridge in South Wales. The town hall, which is the meeting place for Cowbridge with Llanblethian Town Council, and also houses the town clerk's office, the committee rooms and the Cowbridge Museum, is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llandough and Penllyn.
Llandough
Village
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
Llandough is a village in the community of Llanfair, south of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Penllyn
Village
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penllyn is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located north west of the market town of Cowbridge. As a community it contains the settlements of Llansannor, Pentre Meyrick, Trerhyngyll, Ystradowen and Penllyn itself.
Aberthin
Village
Photo: Tony Hodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberthin is a small village, just outside Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, on the north side of a shallow valley, less than a mile northeast of Cowbridge across the A48 road. Cowbridge Comprehensive School lies just to the southwest of the village.
Cowbridge
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4617° or 51° 27′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.4473° or 3° 26′ 50″ westPopulation
3,800Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CDGOpen location code
9C3RFH63+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 272781458OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cowbridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cowbridge”
- Breton: “Y Bont-faen”
- Bulgarian: “Коубридж”
- Catalan: “Cowbridge”
- Cebuano: “Cowbridge”
- Chinese: “母牛橋”
- Dutch: “Cowbridge”
- French: “Cowbridge”
- Galician: “Cowbridge”
- Galician: “Y Bont-faen”
- German: “Cowbridge”
- Irish: “Y Bont-faen”
- Italian: “Cowbridge”
- Japanese: “カウブリッジ”
- Japanese: “コウブリッジ”
- Latin: “Pons Vianus”
- Persian: “کاوبریج”
- Scots: “Cowbridge”
- Scots: “Y Bont-faen”
- Spanish: “Cowbridge”
- Swedish: “Cowbridge”
- Ukrainian: “Кавбрідж”
- Welsh: “Y Bont-faen”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cowbridge”. Photo: Tony Hodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.