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See also: 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
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
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 (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Merthyr Tydfil, and also shares with Merthyr and Aberdare the services of a stipendiary See also:magistrate.
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