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MOUNTAIN ASH

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNTAIN ASH , an See also:urban See also:district of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:south See also:Wales, in the See also:Aberdare valley on the Cynon, a See also:west See also:bank tributary of the Taff, with stations on the Taff Vale and See also:Great Western See also:railways, 18 m. N.E. of See also:Cardiff. Pop. (1901), 31,093. A See also:branch of the Glamorganshire See also:canal passes through the See also:place. At the beginning of the 19th See also:century Mountain Ash was a small See also:village known only by its Welsh name of Aberpenar, but from 1850, with the development of its collieries, the See also:population rapidly increased. The district has an See also:area of 10,504 acres and comprises; besides Mountain Ash proper, a See also:string of villages, the See also:chief being Cwmpenar, Penrhiwceiber, Abercynon or Aberdare Junction (at the confluence of the Cynon with the Taff) and Ynysybwl, 3 M. to the west on the Clydach. The public buildings include St See also:Margaret's (1862) and St Winifred's (1883), the See also:parish churches of Mountain Ash and Penrhiwceiber respectively; old and new See also:town halls (1864 and 1904), cottage See also:hospital (1896), and a library See also:institute and public See also:hall erected in 1899, at a cost of 8000, by the workmen of See also:Nixon's See also:Navigation collieries. There is a See also:park of 7 acres given in 1897, by See also:Lord Aberdare, whose See also:residence, Duffryn, is in the district. There are also a workmen's institute and a public hall at Penrhiwceiber. The older See also:part of the urban district is included in the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of Merthyr Tydfil, and also shares with Merthyr and Aberdare the services of a stipendiary See also:magistrate.

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