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Aberdare info
Aberdare (Welsh: Aberdâr)
is an industrial town in the county borough of
Rhondda Cynon Taff in the traditional county
of Glamorgan, in south Wales,
situated (as the name implies) at the confluence
of the Dar and Cynon rivers. The population at
the (1991) census was 31,619. It is 4 miles S.W.
of Merthyr Tydfil and 24 from Cardiff. From being,
at the beginning of the 19th century, a mere village
in an agricultural district, the place grew rapidly
in population owing to the abundance of its coal
and iron ore, and the population of the whole
parish (which was only 1486 in 1801) increased
tenfold during the first half of the century.
It has since declined, owing to the loss of most
of the heavy industry.
Ironworks were established at
Llwydcoed and Abernant in 1799 and 1800 respectively,
followed by others at Gadlys and Aberaman in 1827
and 1847. These have not been worked since about
1875. Prior to 1836, most of the coal worked in
the parish was consumed locally, chiefly in the
ironworks, but in that year the working of steam
coal for export was begun, pits were sunk in rapid
succession, and the coal trade, which after 1875
was the chief support of the town, soon reached
huge dimensions. There were also several brickworks
and breweries. During the latter half Of the 19th
century, considerable public improvements were
made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring
collieries, a pleasant place to live. Its institutions
included a post-graduate theological college (opened
in connection with the Church of England in 1892,
until 1907, when it was removed to Llandaff).
Aberdare, with the ecclesiastical
parishes of St Fagan's (Trecynon) and Aberaman
carved out of the ancient parish, had twelve Anglican
churches, one Roman Catholic church (built in
1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached
to Penrhys Abbey) and at one time had over fifty
Nonconformist chapels. The services in the majority
of the chapels were in Welsh. The urban district
includes what were once the separate villages
of Aberaman, Abernant, Cwmbach, Cwmaman, Cwmdare,
Llwydcoed and Trecynon. There are several cairns
and the remains of a circular British encampment
on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.
Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the N.W. of Aberdare,
was according to tradition the scene of a battle
at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was
defeated by the ailied forces of the Norman Robert
Fitzhamon and Iestyn ab Gwrgan, the last prince
of Glamorgan.
About Wales
Wales is a Celtic country and
one of the four constituent parts of the United
Kingdom (along with England, Scotland, and Northern
Ireland). Wales is located in the south-west of
Great Britain, and is bordered by England to the
east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's
Channel in the west, and the Irish Sea to the
north.
The main population and industrial areas are
in South Wales, consisting of the cities of Cardiff,
Swansea and Newport
and surrounding areas.
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