Rhigos

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Tower Colliery

Photo: Derek Cummings, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tower Colliery was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure in 2008. It was the last mine of its kind to remain in the South Wales Valleys.

Craig y Llyn

Peak

Photo: Craigthomas1, CC BY 4.0.

Craig y Llyn is a mountain situated to the south of the village of Rhigos in the Cynon Valley on the south side of the upper Vale of Neath and north of the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales; it is the highest point in the ancient kingdom and, later, county of Glamorgan, and the southern Welsh coalfield plateau.

Llyn Fawr

Photo: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Llyn Fawr is a reservoir that occupies one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales Coalfield uplands, overlooking the heads of the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley, South Wales.

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Hirwaun

Village

Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Glynneath

Town

Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Glynneath is a town, community and electoral ward lying on the River Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It was formerly in the historic county of Glamorgan. Glynneath is situated 3 miles west of Rhigos.

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