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Taff Trail cycle route sign. The Taff Trail (Welsh: Taith Taf) is a walking and cycle path that runs for 55 miles (89 km) [1] between Cardiff Bay and Brecon in Wales.It is so named because it follows the course of the River Taff.
Link route between NCRs 81 and 82 NCR 822 Aberaeron: Lampeter: Felinfach: Open from Aberaeron to Llanerchaeron: NCR 825 Circular route: Circular route: Rhayader, Knighton, Kington, Llandrindod Radnor Ring NCR 881 Pontypridd: Maerdy: Porth: Rhondda Fach Trail NCR 883 Blackmill: Nant-y-Moel: Ogmore Vale: NCR 884 Brynmenyn Blaengarw: Pontycymer ...
National Cycle Route 8 (or NCR 8) is a route of the United Kingdom National Cycle Network, running from Cardiff to Holyhead. The route passes through the heart of Wales, and is also known as Lôn Las Cymru ( Welsh for 'Wales' green lane').
A small senior citizen sheltered bungalow complex buffers this site with the Taff Vale site. Quakers Yard station provides access to and from the Taff Trail cycle route. The beauty spot at Pontygwaith Bridge, over the River Taff, lies about a mile north on the trail. Arriva Trains Wales allowed cyclists on local trains with some restrictions on ...
Much of the Taff Trail, Ely Trail and Rumney Trail are segregated from traffic. Other such routes in the city include: West Cardiff. Llandaff Fields: through parkland area in Pontcanna, connecting with the Taff Trail; North Cardiff. M4 Junction 32: routes run under the junction from Coryton to Tongwynlais
Much of the Taff Trail between Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil follows the line of the canal. [13] The section from Tongwynlais to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works at Whitchurch has been retained in water and was used for fishing, [ 14 ] but is now the Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve .
The Taff Trail cycle route passes through the village, [3] and it is a popular resting point between sections. The Cardiff Railway once ran through Tongwynlais. It passed through a tunnel just beneath Castell Coch. Tongwynlais railway station opened in 1911 and closed in 1931. The nearest station on the Coryton Line is Coryton.
There is no formal definition of a long-distance path, though the British Long Distance Walkers Association defines one as a route "20 miles [32 km] or more in length and mainly off-road." [ 1 ] They usually follow existing rights of way , often over private land, linked and sometimes waymarked to make a named route. [ 3 ]