Urdd Centre

Urdd Centre is a social service facility in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales which is located on Wind Street. Urdd Centre is situated nearby to the church Salvation Army Aberdare Corps, as well as near Aberdare Town C.I.W. Primary School.

Type: Social service facility
Also known as: “Soar Chapel” and “Swyddfa’r Urdd”
Address: Wind Street, CF44 7ES

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Aberdare railway station and Calfaria Chapel.

Aberdare railway station

Railway station

Photo: Avocet, Public domain.

Aberdare railway station serves the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is the terminus of the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line, 22½ miles north-north-west of Cardiff Central. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. Aberdare railway station is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Urdd Centre.

Calfaria Chapel

Chapel

Photo: Macs15, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare, was one of the largest baptist churches in the South Wales Valleys and the oldest in the Aberdare valley. The chapel had an ornate interior, including a boarded ceiling with a deeply undercut rose, while the balcony balustrading had a cast iron front with an intricate foliage design. Calfaria Chapel is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Urdd Centre.

Aberdare bus station

Bus station

Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

This is a list of bus stations in Wales:… Aberdare bus station is situated 1,100 feet north of Urdd Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abernant and Aberaman.

Abernant

Village

Photo: Aberdare Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Abernant is a small village north-east of the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Like many in the South Wales Valleys, it was once a coal-mining village.

Aberaman

Village

Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century.

Trecynon

Village

Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Trecynon is a village near Aberdare, situated in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It dates from the early nineteenth century and developed as a result of the opening of the Aberdare Ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800.

Urdd Centre

Categories: building and chapel
Location: Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.70999° or 51° 42′ 36″ north

Longitude

-3.44204° or 3° 26′ 31″ west

Operator

Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Open location code

9C3RPH55+X5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 990072053

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=social_facility

OpenStreetMap feature

building=chapel

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