Parc and Dare Hall

#1610 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Concerts and shows, Theater

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The Parc and Dare Hall, now known as the Park and Dare Theatre, is a former Miners' institute but now serves as a large entertainment venue in the village of Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley of Wales. Since the demolition of the Abercynon Workingmen's Hall, the Parc and Dare Workingmen's Hall is the largest in the South Wales Coalfield. It is a Grade II* listed building. ()

Opened: 1913 (112 years ago)Capacity: 660Coordinates: 51°39'32"N, 3°30'23"W

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Nearby attractions include: Aberdare Park, Llyn Fawr, St Elvan's Church, St John's Church.

4.6 miNE
Neighbourhood, Park
Aberdare Park, Aberdare
118 min walk • Aberdare Park is a well-preserved Victorian public park located in the village of Trecynon, near the town of Aberdare in South Wales.
5 miNW
Lake, Archaeological site
Llyn Fawr
127 min walk • Llyn Fawr is a reservoir that occupies one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales Coalfield uplands, overlooking the heads of the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley, South Wales.
4.6 miNE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Elvan's Church, Aberdare
117 min walk • St Elvan's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the centre of the town of Aberdare. It was built in 1851–1852, largely at the instigation of John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare from 1847 until 1859.
4.5 miNE
Church
St John's Church, Aberdare
115 min walk • St John the Baptist's is an ancient parish church in the centre of the town of Aberdare, Wales.
4.7 miSE
Church
St Anne's Church
121 min walk • St Anne's Church, Ynyshir is located in the Welsh village of Ynyshir in the Benefice of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley. It dates from the 1880s.
4.9 miNE
Bridge
Iron Tram Bridge, Aberdare
127 min walk • The Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown is an early example of a "railway" bridge. It crosses the River Cynon between Trecynon and Robertstown. It carried the Llwydcoed Tramroad which ran from Hirwaun to the canal head at Cwmbach, south east of Aberdare.
4.2 miN
Park
Dare Valley Country Park, Aberdare
107 min walk • Dare Valley Country Park is a public park in Wales. It lies near the village of Cwmdare and the town of Aberdare, Cynon Valley, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales. It comprises 500 acres of woodlands, pasture and moorland mountainside. It is maintained by the local Council, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
4.5 miNE
Church
Calfaria, Aberdare
114 min walk • 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.
4.6 miNE
Church
Bethesda
118 min walk • Bethesda, Abercwmboi is a Welsh Baptist church in Abercwmboi near Aberdare. Services continue to be held in the Welsh language.
4.8 miNE
Church
Ebenezer, Aberdare
123 min walk • Ebenezer, Trecynon was an Independent chapel in Ebenezer Street, Trecynon, Aberdare, Wales. It was one of the earliest Independent chapels in the Cynon Valley and remained an active place of worship until 2009.
3.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Llangeinwyr
80 min walk • Mynydd Llangeinwyr is the highest hill in the county borough of Bridgend in the coalfield of South Wales. It forms a long north-south ridge between the valleys of Cwm Garw to the west and Cwm Ogwr Fawr to the east.