Maerdy
Maerdy is a village of 3,200 people in Glamorgan. 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.
- Village with 3,130 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,007 feet (307 metres)
- Description: village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Also known as“Mardy”“Y Maerdy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Treorchy railway station and Ferndale Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Treorchy and Pentre.
Maerdy
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Latitude
51.6746° or 51° 40′ 29″ north
Longitude
-3.4852° or 3° 29′ 7″ west
Open location code
9C3RMGF7+RW
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Maerdy” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մերդի”
- Basque: “Maerdy”
- Breton: “Y Maerdy”
- Bulgarian: “Маердй”
- Catalan: “Y Maerdy”
- Cebuano: “Maerdy”
- Cornish: “Y Maerdy”
- Dutch: “Maerdy”
- French: “Maerdy”
- German: “Maerdy”
- Indonesian: “Maerdy”
- Irish: “Y Maerdy”
- Italian: “Maerdy”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maerdy”
- Persian: “ماردی”
- Russian: “Мэрди”
- Scots: “Maerdy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Y Maerdy”
- Silesian: “Maerdy”
- Swedish: “Maerdy”
- Turkish: “Maerdy”
- Welsh: “Y Maerdy”
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