Places to visit

Castell Coch is a medieval castle renovated by the 3rd Marquess of Bute and architect William Burgess. It is largely a Victorian Gothic fantasy and like Cardiff Castle of stunning design. The castle is on the site of a medieval Norman castle that gradually fell into ruin. The renovation was completed in the late nineteenth century. The location is north of Cardiff - Caerdydd off the A470 to the north of Tongwynlais.

Mynydd-y-gelli  Ring Cairn is sometimes referred to as Rhondda Stonehenge. Set within a low embankment this prehistoric site consists of a circle of small stones of about thirty feet in diameter. It is thought there could have been 15 stones of which nine survive. Located off the B4223 near south Gelli to the northwest of Pontypridd and Tonypandy.

Morlais Castle is on an Iron Age Hill Fort site. Remains of the thriteenth century catsle include the ground floor and vault, round keep, towers and various buildings. It is located about two miles north of Merthyr Tydfil off the A465 and overlooks the Taf Fechan.

Located near Hirwaun in Cynon Valley Llyn Fawr is the site where workmen clearing the lake bed found a number of Bronze and Iron Age items. These included bronze cauldrons, axes, sickles and horse harnesses as well as other items including an iron sword with a bone handle representing the earliest evidence of iron work found in the British Isles dating to about 600BC. It is thought that the Celts threw these items in to the lake 2500 years ago as offering to the goddess of water. Some of these items can be seen at the National Museum in Cardiff. The site is off the A4061 along a forestry track. It is south of Hirwaun and west of Hirwaun Common and the A4061.