Hirwaun
Hirwaun is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is 4 miles NW of the town of Aberdare, and comes under the Aberdare post town.- Type: Village with 7,250 residents
- Description: village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Hirwain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hirwaun Library and Brynygaer Cemetery.
Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun
School
Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a Welsh-medium secondary comprehensive school with a sixth form in the Cynon Valley in the village of Penywaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, to the northwest of the town of Aberdare.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penywaun and Penderyn.
Penywaun
Village
Penywaun is a community, electoral ward and north-western suburb of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. At the 2011 census, the population of the ward was registered as 3,063.
Penderyn
Village
Penderyn is a rural village in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South East Wales, located near the village and community of Hirwaun. The name is a combination of two Welsh words: pen, which means "head" or "end", and deryn, a contracted form of aderyn, "bird". Penderyn is situated 2 miles north of Hirwaun.
Cwmdare
Village
Cwmdare is a village very close to Aberdare, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village's history is intertwined with coal-mining, and since the decline of the industry in the 1980s, it has become primarily a commuter base for the larger surrounding towns of Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil and Pontypridd, as well as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea. Cwmdare is situated 2 miles southeast of Hirwaun.
Hirwaun
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.74033° or 51° 44′ 25″ north
Longitude
-3.51263° or 3° 30′ 46″ west
Population
7,250
Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HWU
Open location code
9C3RPFRP+4W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Hirwaun” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hirwaun”
- Bengali: “হিরবাউন”
- Breton: “Hirwaun”
- Catalan: “Hirwaun”
- Cebuano: “Hirwaun”
- Chinese: “Hirwaun”
- Chinese: “希尔文”
- Chinese: “希爾文”
- Cornish: “Hirwaun”
- Czech: “Hirwaun”
- Dutch: “Hirwaun”
- French: “Hirwaun”
- Galician: “Hirwaun”
- German: “Hirwaun”
- Gujarati: “હિરવૌન”
- Irish: “Hirwaun”
- Japanese: “ハイアーワーン”
- Kannada: “ಹಿರ್ವಾನ್”
- Korean: “허원”
- Lithuanian: “Hirvaunas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hirwaun”
- Persian: “هیروان”
- Polish: “Hirwaun”
- Portuguese: “Hirwaun”
- Russian: “Хирваун”
- Scots: “Hirwaun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hirwaun”
- Spanish: “Hirwaun”
- Swedish: “Hirwaun”
- Tamil: “ஹிர்வாயின்”
- Telugu: “హిర్వాన్”
- Urdu: “ہیرواون”
- Welsh: “Hirwaun”
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