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Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in the Cynon Valley in the village of Penywaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, to the northwest of the town of Aberdare. The school was established on 1 September 1995 to deal with the increasing numbers of students attending five local Welsh-medium primary schools, who previously had to ...
Many Welsh-speaking pupils attend Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun near Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf. [1] Special school. Greenfield Special School; References
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Penywaun derives from two common Welsh toponyms "Pen" meaning top or head and "Gwaun" meaning moorland. Writing in 1887, Thomas Morgan states that the toponym (which he spells "Penwaun") indicates the end of the moor known as the Hirwaun Gwrgant or Gwrgan's "Waun".
Welsh historian David Watkin Jones (bardic name 'Dafydd Morganwg') [7] documented in his 1874 Hanes Morganwg (History of Glamorgan) [8] that, in 1666, one "Mayber" built a small charcoal-fired furnace near Llygad Cynon, the source of the River Cynon, in an uninhabited place in the parish of Penderyn (ym mhlwyf Penderyn).
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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.
The Aberdare West community came into effect on 1 December 2016 following the enactment of The Rhondda Cynon Taf (Communities) Order 2016. [1] The area includes the populated areas of Cwmdare, Trecynon and Robertstown as well as the more rural area surrounding the River Dare, west of Aberdare.