Tinkinswood
Tinkinswood or its full name Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, also known as Castell Carreg, Llech-y-Filiast and Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic burial chamber, built around 4000 BC, during the Neolithic period, in the Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales.Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: neolithic dolmen in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
- Also known as: “Tinkenswood”, “Tinkenswood Burial Chamber”, and “Tinkinswood Chambered Tomb”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dyffryn Gardens and St Lythans Burial Chamber.
Dyffryn Gardens
Park
Dyffryn Gardens, also spelt Duffryn Gardens, is a collection of botanical gardens located near the villages of Dyffryn and St. Nicholas in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Dyffryn Gardens is situated 3,100 feet southeast of Tinkinswood.
St Lythans Burial Chamber
Archaeological site
Photo: Daicaregos, Public domain.
The St Lythans burial chamber is a single stone megalithic dolmen, built around 4000 BC as part of a chambered long barrow, during the mid Neolithic period, in what is now known as the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. St Lythans Burial Chamber is situated 1 mile southeast of Tinkinswood.
St Nicholas C.I.W. Primary
School
Photo: Tony Hodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas C.I.W. Primary is a school, which is situated 3,800 feet north of Tinkinswood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dyffryn and St Lythans.
Dyffryn
Village
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dyffryn, often Duffryn, is a village in the communities of Wenvoe and St Nicholas and Bonvilston, in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is located 4.8 miles north of the town centre of Barry, roughly 1 mile west of St Lythans and 2 miles south of St.
St Lythans
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Lythans is a hamlet and former parish in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just outside western Cardiff. It lies southwest of Culverhouse Cross, west of Wenvoe and southwest of Twyn-yr-Odyn and is also connected by road from Dyffryn and the Five Mile Lane in the west.
Twyn-yr-Odyn
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twyn-yr-Odyn is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just beyond the territorial border of western Cardiff. It lies just southwest of Culverhouse Cross, very close to Wenvoe and St Lythans.
Tinkinswood
- Categories: dolmen, chambered long barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.45148° or 51° 27′ 5″ northLongitude
-3.30779° or 3° 18′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C3RFM2R+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1869348224OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1859561
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In Other Languages
From German to Welsh—“Tinkinswood” goes by many names.
- German: “Tinkinswood”
- Hebrew: “טינקינסווד”
- Hebrew: “תא הקבורה טינקינסווד”
- Italian: “tomba Tinkinswood”
- Italian: “Tomba Tinkinswood”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gravkammeret i Tinkinswood”
- Norwegian: “Gravkammeret i Tinkinswood”
- Russian: “Тинкинсвуд”
- Welsh: “Beddrod Siambr Tinkinswood”
- Welsh: “Tinkinswood”
- “Tinkinswood”
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Highlights include Coed Siôn Hywel and Brook Wood.
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