Llantwit Major
Llantwit Major is a town and community in Wales on the Bristol Channel coast. It is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan, with the third largest population after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 14,400 residents
- Description: town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Llanilltud Fawr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llantwit Major railway station and Llantwit Major Roman Villa.
Llantwit Major railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llantwit Major railway station is a railway station serving the small town of Llantwit Major, South Wales. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line, 18+1⁄4 miles west of Cardiff Central towards Bridgend via Barry and Rhoose.
Llantwit Major Roman Villa
Archaeological site
The Llantwit Major Roman Villa was a Roman L-shaped courtyard villa located at what is now Caermead, immediately north of the town of Llantwit Major in the Welsh county of South Glamorgan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanmaes and St Donats.
Llanmaes
Village
Photo: cowbridgeguide.co.uk, CC BY 3.0.
Llanmaes is a small village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan near the market town of Llantwit Major. The population in 2011 was 403.
St Donats
Village
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Donats is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, located just west of the small town of Llantwit Major. The community includes the village of Marcross and the hamlets of Monknash and East and West Monkton.
Frampton
Hamlet
Photo: Virginia Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frampton is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. It lies within the parish of Llantwit Major, to the north of the town off the B4265 road, 4.25 miles south-southwest of Cowbridge. It is divided into Little Frampton and Great Frampton.
Llantwit Major
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4083° or 51° 24′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.4858° or 3° 29′ 9″ westPopulation
14,400Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LTMOpen location code
9C3RCG57+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 29062680OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Algerian Arabic to Welsh—“Llantwit Major” goes by many names.
- Algerian Arabic: “Llantwit Major”
- Arabic: “منير”
- Asturian: “Llantwit Major”
- Basque: “Llantwit Major”
- Bengali: “ল্যান্টউইট মেজর”
- Breton: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Breton: “Llantwit Major”
- Bulgarian: “Лантуит Мейджър”
- Catalan: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Catalan: “Llantwit Major”
- Cebuano: “Llantwit Major”
- Chinese: “兰特威特梅杰”
- Chinese: “兰特维特美爵”
- Chinese: “蘭特威特梅傑”
- Cornish: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Czech: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Czech: “Llantwit Major”
- Dutch: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Dutch: “Llantwit Major”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منير”
- French: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- French: “Llantwit Major”
- German: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- German: “Llantwit Major”
- Gujarati: “લૅન્ટવિટ મેજર”
- Irish: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Italian: “Llantwit Major”
- Japanese: “ラントウィット・メジャー”
- Kannada: “ಲಾಂಟ್ವಿಟ್ ಮೇಜರ್”
- Korean: “란트위트 메이저”
- Lithuanian: “Lantvit Meidžoras”
- Persian: “سانتویت میجر”
- Polish: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Polish: “Llantwit Major”
- Portuguese: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Portuguese: “Llantwit Major”
- Russian: “Ллантвит-Мэйджр”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Llantwit Major”
- Slovak: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Slovak: “Llantwit Major”
- Spanish: “Llanilltud Fawr”
- Spanish: “Llantwit Major”
- Swedish: “Llantwit Major”
- Tamil: “லாண்ட்விட் மேஜர்”
- Telugu: “ల్లాంట్విట్ మేజర్”
- Ukrainian: “Ллантвіт-Мейджор”
- Urdu: “لانتویت میجر”
- Welsh: “Llanilltud Fawr”
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