Winding House is New Tredegar’s place to visit
One place to visit is mapped inside New Tredegar’s built-up area, with 3 more within 5 km of its edge. Out of town, Caerphilly Castle is 16 km away.
Start here in New Tredegar
Alongside Winding House you find 3 museums.
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The layout
Beyond the town, the 3 nearby are mostly to the north.
The dashed line is New Tredegar’s built-up area; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · ONS built-up area 2022
Kinds of place
All 4 are museums or galleries.
Green: inside New Tredegar. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every place to visit
In town there is one, and the list adds 3 more within 5 km of its edge.
The one inside New Tredegar comes first, then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Churches and listed buildings are on the History page, not here.
4 listed buildings are on New Tredegar’s History page → · Parks, footpaths and green space in New Tredegar →
A drive away
The pick of the 12 is Caerphilly Castle, 16 km off.
MuseumNational Museum Cardiff26 km south · 373K visitors a year
CastleCardiff Castle27 km south
Castle · CadwCastell Coch21 km south
CathedralLlandaff Cathedral25 km south
Big drawMuseumSt Fagans Museum Visitor Centre26 km south · 610K visitors a year
Castle · CadwMonmouth Castle38 km east
Castle · CadwRaglan Castle28 km east
Abbey or priory · CadwTintern Abbey39 km east
CathedralCardiff Metropolitan Cathedral27 km south
CastleMorlais Castle11 km northwest
Castle · CadwChepstow Castle40 km eastPlaces well known beyond New Tredegar (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a National Trust, English Heritage or Cadw property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Your questions on New Tredegar
What are the main attractions in New Tredegar?
The place to visit inside New Tredegar’s built-up area is Winding House. In all, 1 place to visit is mapped inside the town, and 3 more within 5 km.
Does New Tredegar have a museum?
4 museums and galleries are in or within 5 km of New Tredegar: Winding House, Tredegar Medical Aid Society Heritage Centre, Tredegar Museum and The Block of Coal.
Is there a National Trust or English Heritage property near New Tredegar?
None within 5 km. The nearest well-known one on our list is Caerphilly Castle (Cadw), 16 km south.
What are the best-known days out near New Tredegar?
Within 40 km: Caerphilly Castle (16 km), National Museum Cardiff (26 km), Cardiff Castle (27 km), Castell Coch (21 km).
Where are New Tredegar’s historic buildings listed?
New Tredegar has 4 listed buildings. They are on its History page, from Cadw’s list, not repeated here.
How is this list made?
From OpenStreetMap (museums, galleries, zoos, theme parks and attractions, castles, forts and abbeys, and historic houses and gardens that are open to visitors) and Wikidata (what each place is, who runs it, its website and visitor counts). A place counts for New Tredegar when it is inside the ONS 2022 built-up area, and as nearby within 5 km of its edge. Opening times and prices are not shown: check the official site.
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (11)
- National Museum Cardiff: Ham II, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cardiff Castle: Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Castell Coch: Hchc2009, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Llandaff Cathedral: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Fagans Museum Visitor Centre: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Monmouth Castle: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raglan Castle: Tyssil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tintern Abbey: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral: Ham II, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Morlais Castle: Gibbinskaren, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chepstow Castle: eszgé, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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