Name: Nantgarw to Pontypridd

Start: Nantgarw Chinaworks, Tyla Gwyn, Nantgarw, CF15 7TB

End: Ynysangharad Park, 8 Ceridwen Terrace, Pontypridd CF37 4PD

Distance: 6.2 miles

Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes

This walk starts in Nantgarw China Works & Museum (A), where you can take a look inside, when open. Walk up the bridge that's in front of you, and cross the A470, coming down onto Old Nantgarw Road. Continue until the road splits into two, follow the road on the left and walk until you reach the end of the houses. You'll see a path on your right, turn here to walk down to the Taff Trail (B). As you reach the Taff Train, turn left and continue on this same path for 3 miles.

You'll come out by Glyntaff Campus, University of South Wales. Continue to the roundabout, and take the first exit to the left to follow Cemetery Road until the end of the houses. Turn left to walk down Pentrebach Road.

Walk down to the roundabout, going under the A470 to cross the River Taff (C).

Follow Broadway around to the left, and as the road starts to straighten, cross the road to follow Fothergill Road. Pass the narrow lane, James Place, and take the first sharp right up Park Street, then another sharp left up Park Crescent. Take the first right up Princess Street, and then left on Kingsland Terrace. Pass a couple of houses and you'll see 57 Kingsland Terrace (Ch) on your right.

Retrace your steps back to Broadway, and as you join the main road, continue to the left for 0.2 miles and you'll see the Grogg Shop (D) on your left. If it's open, go in and have a look around.

After visiting this historic shop, come out and carefully cross the road. Turn right and take the first left down James Street. At the end of the road, turn left on Windsor Road.

Cross the River Taff again using the footbridge. Turn right and continue on the Taff Trail that runs parallel to the A470 until you reach Ynysangharad Park (Dd).

Take some time to look around the park and all that it has to offer. This is where this walk ends.

A. Nantgarw Chinaworks

Nantgarw Chinaworks is one of the most important industrial heritage sites in Wales. On this site during the early years of the 19th Century William Billingsley set out to create the best porcelain in the world.

B. Taff Trail

The Taff Trail runs for 55 miles between Cardiff and Brecon along a mixture of riverside paths, railway paths and forest roads.

C.The River Taff

It rises as two rivers in the Brecon Beacons; the Taf Fechan and the Taf Fawr before becoming one just north of Merthyr Tydfil. Its confluence with the River Severn estuary is in Cardiff.

Ch. 57 Kingsland Terrace

This is the birthplace of the world famous singer, Tom Jones, on the 7th of June 1940.

D. Groggs Shop

A Grogg is a caricature figure made by the World of Groggs, a ceramics company established by John Hughes in 1965. Groggs are usually made of popular Welsh rugby players, Welsh celebrities and the occasional non-Welsh celebrity

Dd. Ynysangharad Park

Home of the 2024 Rhondda Cynon Taff Eisteddfod. The park contains a lido, bowls green, tennis courts, a war memorial garden and a statue remembering the Welsh national anthem composers, Evan James and James James.