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ABERDARE , a See also:

market See also:town of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, situated (as the name implies) at the confluence of the See also:Dar and Cynon, the latter being a tributary of the Taff. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 43,365. It is 4 M. S.W. of Merthyr Tydvil, 24 from See also:Cardiff and 16o from See also:London by See also:rail. It has a station on the See also:Pontypool and See also:Swansea See also:section of the See also:Great Western railway, and is also served by the Llwydcoed and Abernant stations which are on a See also:branch See also:line to Merthyr. The Taff Vale line (opened 1846) has a See also:terminus in the town. The Glamorgan See also:canal has also a branch (made in 1811) See also:running from Abercynon to Aberdare. From being, at the beginning of the 19th See also:century, a See also:mere See also:village in an agricultural district, the See also:place See also:grew rapidly in See also:population owing to the abundance of its See also:coal and See also:iron ore, and the population of the whole See also:parish (which was only 1486 in 18o1) increased tenfold during the first See also:half of the century. Iron-See also:works were established at Llwydcoed and Abernant in 1799 and 'Soo respectively, followed by others at Gadlys and Aberaman in 1827 and 1847. These have not been worked since about 1875, and the only See also:metal See also:industries remaining in the town are an iron foundry or two and a small tinplate works at Gadlys (established in 1868). Previous to 1836, most of the coal worked in the parish was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks, but in that See also:year the working of See also:steam coal for export was begun, pits were sunk in rapid See also:succession, and the coal See also:trade, which at least since 1875 has been the See also:chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions. There are also several brickworks and breweries.

During the latter half of the 19th century,'See also:

ABERDEEN considerable public improvements were effected in the town, making it, despite its neighbouring collieries, an agreeable place of See also:residence. Its institutions included a See also:post-See also:graduate theological See also:college (opened in connexion with the See also:Church of See also:England in 1892, until 1907, when it was removed to See also:Llandaff). There is a public See also:park of fifty acres with two small lakes. Aberdare, with the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's (Trecynon) and Aberaman carved out of the See also:ancient parish, has some twelve See also:Anglican churches, one See also:Roman See also:Catholic church (built in 1866 in See also:Monk See also:Street near the site of a See also:cell attached to Penrhys See also:Abbey) and over fifty See also:Nonconformist chapels. The services in the See also:majority of the chapels are in Welsh. The whole parish falls within the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of Merthyr Tydvil. The urban district includes what were once the See also:separate villages of Aberaman, Abernant, Cwinbach, Cwmaman, Cwmdare, Llwydcoed and Trecynon. There are several See also:cairns and the remains of a circular See also:British encampment on the See also:mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr. Hirwaun See also:moor, 4 M. to the N.W. of Aberdare, was according to tradition the See also:scene of a See also:battle at which Rhys ap Jewdwr, See also:prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the See also:Norman See also:Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ab Gwrgan, the last prince of Glamorgan.

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