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Traffic lights control an alternating one-way flow of traffic under the narrow railway bridge, headroom 13 feet 9 inches (4.2 metres) in the middle of the road.
©John Grayson
There is a bus shelter either side of the public toilets building, located on High Street, opposite the library. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2312592
©John Grayson
Houses on the west side of the street, viewed from the High Street end.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Part of the artwork on an external wall of the library. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2312592 The rows are (top to bottom) Welsh, finger spelling, semaphore, Braille and English. The top row shows that CH and DD are one letter in the Welsh language. These are examples of a digraph, where two written letters represent one sound.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Located on High Street. The library is part of Caerphilly County Borough's library service. A distinctive feature of the library is the stainless steel artwork http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2312615 on an external wall. Depicted are various alphabets: Welsh, finger spelling, semaphore, Braille and English.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Traditional pub and restaurant-style food is how their own website describes The Beech Tree, 43 Bedwlwyn Road, on the corner (and viewed along) High Street.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>35 Penallta Road.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Pantycelyn Street passes under a bridge that formerly carried a railway line. The headroom is 10 feet 9 inches (3.3 metres). Not a route for a double-decker bus! The single-decker bus I arrived in was 9 feet 6 inches high, giving a small but comfortable clearance of 15 inches (0.4 metres).
©John Grayson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Houses on the north side of the street, viewed from the corner of Penallta Road.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Viewed from opposite Davies Street. There is a long row of houses on the north side of the street ; on the camera side is Lidl. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035555
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Houses on the north side of Lewis Street, viewed from the corner of the A472, in this area named Nelson Road. The speed bumps are near the main entrance of Ystrad Mynach Primary School. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2038376
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Located on Lisburn Road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The school occupies a site bordered by Lisburn Road, Lewis Street and the A472. This view is of the western side of the school. The school, now with about 400 pupils enrolled, has been on this site for a century, with the buildings and grounds updated periodically. The current name dates from 2006, on the amalgamation of Ystrad Mynach Junior School and Ystrad Mynach Infants' School.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Davies Street climbs away from Pengam Road towards Bedwlwyn Road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Davies Street climbs away from Pengam Road towards Bedwlwyn Road.
©John Grayson

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