Billy Wynt — Attraction in Llantrisant

In the seventies the gang of children in our street often walked to Llantrisant from Pontyclun to go swimming in the baths at Southgate or climb up to the Billy Wynt. We'd lie in the summer ferns (looking out for adders) and if skies were clear we'd hope to see as far as Cardiff which to us, then, was like a distant country. Photos posted here bring back fantastic...

I have been going here with my dog 2–4 times per weeks, It Is open 24/7. Anyone at any time, day or night can go, Just be careful, especially If It Is wet!! Yup, I have slipped onto my butt, a lot! Walk Into the Billy Wynt structure Itself, walk up the very short, to poke your head out, and It feels like you are on top of the world, I...

Fantastic views over Talbot Green and Llantrisant, you can also see the Bristol Channel and Step Holm. Breem and Western-Super-Mare. There are also views of the dafodil wind turbine and the Royal Mint and factories in Ynysmeardy. Billy Wynt is an windmill from the 14th Century. It's worth a look, but the incline can be steep and...