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In the 1800s, Clydach was a very small community if it could even be called that. Maps from then show Clydach to consist of sub-areas namely 'Mount Pleasant' (the area by high street shops), 'Faerdre' (covering the area nearest to Vardre Road), 'Down' the area that was once 'Down Farm' which is now land laying behind the Farmer's Arms, Clydach and below 'Ty gwyn Road'.
A railway line was laid by the Taff Vale Railway in the 1850s and, by 1875, there were three coal mines in the valley, Cwm Clydach Colliery (opened 1864), Blaen Clydach Colliery (opened in 1875) and Clydach Vale Colliery. [3] The grid of residential streets of Clydach Vale, Blaen Clydach and Penpant Clydach was established by the end of the ...
The area around the village is popular for hillwalking with many routes tracing the beauty of the nearby Clydach Gorge or Cwm Clydach, and the old trackbed of the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway is a cycleway and walkway and the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal can be walked or travelled by narrow boat.
Craig-cefn-parc is a village near Clydach, outside Swansea, Wales.It falls within the Mawr ward of Swansea.The name means "park ridge rock". Cwm Clydach RSPB nature reserve is located at the south of the village, near the New Inn Public House, at the boundary between Craig-cefn-parc and Clydach.
Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve is a 24.8 hectares (61 acres) area of steeply sloping valley-side on Clydach Gorge, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Brynmawr, southeast Wales. It is protected for its ancient semi- natural beech woods , designated by the Nature Conservancy Council (now managed by its successor authority Natural Resources Wales ).
Manor Castle ward—which includes the districts of Claywood, Manor, Manor Park, Park Hill, and Wybourn [2] —is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the eastern part of the city and covers an area of 5.4 km 2 (2.1 sq mi).
Clydach may refer to any of various settlements and rivers in South Wales: Clydach, Monmouthshire (village) Clydach, Swansea (village) Clydach (electoral ward), an electoral ward in the City and County of Swansea; Clydach Gorge, (Welsh Cwm Clydach) Monmouthshire; River Clydach, Monmouthshire, (Welsh Afon Clydach) Lower Clydach River, Swansea Valley
Cwm Clydach is a nature reserve on the outskirts of Clydach, Swansea, Wales. It is run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . It is ancient broadleaved woodland and is home to breeding pied flycatchers, redstarts, dippers and buzzards. The Lower Clydach River flows through the centre of the reserve.