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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Goodwin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 3,130 residents
- Description: village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Also known as: “Mardy” and “Y Maerdy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ferndale Cemetery and Treorchy railway station.
Treorchy railway station
Railway station
Photo: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Treorchy railway station is a railway station serving the town of Treorchy and village of Cwmparc in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Treorchy and Ferndale.
Treorchy
Town
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Treorchy is a town and community in Wales. Once a mining town, it retains such characteristics. Situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley.
Ferndale
Village
Photo: Steve Chapple, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ferndale is a town and community located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown.
Pentre
Village
Photo: Peter Brabham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pentre is a village, community and electoral ward near Treorchy in the Rhondda valley, falling within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village's name is taken from the Welsh word Pentref, which translates as homestead, though Pentre is named after a large farm that dominated the area before the coming of industrialisation.
Maerdy
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.6746° or 51° 40′ 29″ northLongitude
-3.4852° or 3° 29′ 7″ westPopulation
3,130Elevation
1,007 feet (307 metres)Open location code
9C3RMGF7+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 7207032294OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643222Wikidata ID
Q2051921
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Chinese: “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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Maerdy”. Photo: Peter Goodwin, CC BY-SA 2.0.