Rhondda

Rhondda, or the Rhondda Valley, is a former coalmining area in , historically in the county of . It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and the plural are both commonly used.
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  • Type: Locality with 69,500 residents
  • Description: former coalmining area in South Wales
  • Also known as: “Y Rhondda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ystrad Rhondda railway station and Ton Pentre railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving Ystrad in , Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line, between and , 20 miles 5 chains from .

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the village of in , Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line, between and , 20 miles 75 chains from .

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the village of in Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line, between and , 19 miles 7 chains from .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maerdy and Aberdare.

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is a village of 3,200 people in . The area grew from a farming community to town around the coal mining industry and the development of Mardy Colliery in the late 19th century, but its last pit shut in 1990.

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is a town in the Cynon Valley area of , , at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and . has a population of 39,550.

Town
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is a town, community and electoral ward located in the county borough of , within the historic county boundaries of , , lying in the Rhondda Fawr Valley. is situated 2½ miles south of Rhondda.

Rhondda

Latitude
51.659° or 51° 39′ 32″ north
Longitude
-3.4489° or 3° 26′ 56″ west
Population
69,500
Elevation
840 feet (256 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB RHO
Open location code
9C3RMH52+HF
Geo­Names ID
2639447
Wiki­data ID
Q1859627
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Rhondda” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Rhondda”
  • Bengali: “রোড্ডা সাইনন টাফ”
  • Breton: “Rhondda”
  • Bulgarian: “Рхонда”
  • Catalan: “Rhondda”
  • Cebuano: “Rhondda”
  • Chinese: “朗德”
  • Chinese: “朗达”
  • Chinese: “朗達 (威爾斯)”
  • Chinese: “朗達”
  • Czech: “Rhondda”
  • Dutch: “Rhondda”
  • French: “Rhondda”
  • Galician: “Rhondda”
  • Georgian: “რონდა (უელსი)”
  • Georgian: “რონდა”
  • German: “Rhondda”
  • Gujarati: “રોન્ડા”
  • Hebrew: “רונדה”
  • Irish: “Rhondda”
  • Irish: “Y Rhondda”
  • Italian: “Rhondda”
  • Japanese: “ロンザ・カノン・タフ”
  • Japanese: “ロンザ”
  • Japanese: “ロンダー鉱山”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಂಡಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Ронта”
  • Korean: “론다키넌타브 주”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhondda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rhondda Urban Area”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rhondda”
  • Norwegian: “Rhondda”
  • Persian: “رونتا”
  • Polish: “Rhondda”
  • Portuguese: “Rhondda”
  • Russian: “Ронда”
  • Russian: “Ронта”
  • Scots: “Rhondda”
  • Serbian: “Rhondda”
  • Serbian: “Ronda”
  • Serbian: “Ронда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rhondda”
  • Slovak: “Rhondda”
  • Spanish: “Rhondda”
  • Swedish: “Rhondda”
  • Tamil: “ராண்டா”
  • Telugu: “రోండా”
  • Ukrainian: “Ронта”
  • Urdu: “رہوندا”
  • Welsh: “Cwm Rhondda”
  • Welsh: “Rhondda”
  • Welsh: “y Rhondda”
  • Welsh: “Y Rhondda”
  • Yue Chinese: “朗德”

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