Trecynon
Trecynon is a village near Aberdare, situated in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It dates from the early nineteenth century and developed as a result of the opening of the Aberdare Ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bryn Seion Chapel and Aberdare railway station.
Bryn Seion Chapel
Church
Photo: Aberdare Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bryn Seion, Trecynon was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Mill Street, Trecynon, Aberdare, Wales. Services at Bryn Seion were conducted in the Welsh language until it became a Baptist chapel in 1970.
Aberdare railway station
Railway station
Photo: Avocet, Public domain.
Aberdare railway station serves the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is the terminus of the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line, 22½ miles north-north-west of Cardiff Central. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llwydcoed and Cwmdare.
Llwydcoed
Village
Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Llwydcoed is a small village and community north of the Cwm Cynon, near the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, with a population of 1,302 as of 2011 census.
Cwmdare
Village
Photo: Aberdare Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Abernant
Village
Photo: Aberdare Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abernant is a small village north-east of the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Like many in the South Wales Valleys, it was once a coal-mining village.
Trecynon
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.72204° or 51° 43′ 19″ northLongitude
-3.45753° or 3° 27′ 27″ westElevation
505 feet (154 metres)Open location code
9C3RPGCR+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 7402855831OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Trecynon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Trecynon”
- Dutch: “Trecynon”
- French: “Trecynon”
- Irish: “Trecynon”
- Welsh: “Trecynon”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Trecynon Post Office and Capel Ebernezer.
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