Pen y Dre High School
Pen y Dre High School is an 11-16 mixed-sex comprehensive school situated in the Gurnos district of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.- Type: School
- Description: school in Merthyr Tydfil, UK
- Also known as: “Pen-Y-Dre High School”
- Address: Goitre Lane, CF47 9BY
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Morlais Castle and Pant railway station.
Morlais Castle
Ruins
Photo: Gibbinskaren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Morlais Castle is situated 3,700 feet north of Pen y Dre High School.
Pant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant railway station was a station which served Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, in the historic Welsh county of Glamorgan, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. It was the junction at which the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Railway line from Pontsticill in the North split to serve the Dowlais Central and Dowlais Top lines. Pant railway station is situated 1 mile northeast of Pen y Dre High School.
Joseph Parry’s Cottage
Museum
Photo: Trehywel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Joseph Parry's Cottage, also known as 4 Chapel Row, is a cottage located in Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. Built in the early 19th century for ironworkers, the cottage is best known as the birthplace of the famous Welsh composer Joseph Parry. Joseph Parry’s Cottage is situated 1¼ miles south of Pen y Dre High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gurnos and Dowlais.
Gurnos
Suburb
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate. The population in 2011 was 5,280.
Dowlais
Suburb
Photo: Varitek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dowlais is a village in the north-east of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh du, which means 'black', and glais, which means 'stream'.
Pant
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
Pen y Dre High School
- Categories: secondary school and education
- Location: Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7669° or 51° 46′ 1″ northLongitude
-3.3778° or 3° 22′ 40″ westOpen location code
9C3RQJ8C+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 398401753OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q7162054
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In Other Languages
From French to Welsh—“Pen y Dre High School” goes by many names.
- French: “Pen-Y-Dre High School”
- Welsh: “Ysgol Uwchradd Pen-Y-Dre”
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Highlights include Calon Las Community Centre and Glow Uchaf Residents Centre.
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