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Trealaw is a long village, also a community and electoral ward in the Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.It stretches over two miles (three kilometres) from the junction of Cemetery Road and Brithweunydd Road in the east, to the junction of Ynyscynon Road and Partridge Road to the northwest.
Rhondda No. 2 56 Gelli Colliery 1870 E. Thomas & G. Griffiths Gelli 1962 905 (1908) Seven feet, Five feet, Yard seam, Pentre seam 57 Dare Colliery 1870 D. Davies and Co. Cwmparc 1966 1121 (1923) Six feet, Three feet Ten, Red seam, Brunt, Little 58 Trealaw (Llwynypia No. 3) Colliery 1872 Trealaw ≤1918 Unknown Rhondda No. 3 59 Glynmoch Colliery
Dinas is the site of Dinas Lower (Dinas Isaf/Dinas Ishaf) Colliery, sunk by Walter Coffin in 1812 as the first deep coal mine in the Rhondda valley.This was later followed by the sinking of the Dinas Middle Colliery in 1832 along the southern banks of the river Rhondda Fawr, opposite Dinas Rhondda railway station.
Rhondda Cynon Taf (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ɔnða ˈkənɔn ˈtaːv]; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff ( Welsh : Taf ) and Ely valleys, plus several towns and villages away from the valleys.
Rhondda Cynon Taf. Until May 2022 the Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough was divided into 52 electoral wards [15] returning 75 councillors. Some of these electoral wards were coterminous with communities (parishes) of the same name. The following table lists council electoral wards, communities and associated geographical areas:
The Church of St Stephen, Ystrad Rhondda (Church in Wales) The oldest Baptist chapel in the Rhondda, and originally known as Ynysfach Chapel, Nebo was located at Ystrad. [2] It was demolished in the early 1980s. The Church of St Stephen is part of the Church in Wales Parish of Trealaw with Ystrad Rhondda with Ynyscynon in the Diocese of Llandaff.
Rhondda / ˈ r ɒ n ð ə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr, 'large') and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach, 'small') – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and the ...
This is a list of local government communities (since the creation of Rhondda Cynon Taf unless otherwise indicated): Aberaman (to 30 November 2016) [ 2 ] Aberaman North (from 1 December 2016) [ 2 ]