Place:Ynysybwl, Glamorgan, Wales

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NameYnysybwl
TypeVillage
Coordinates51.64°N 3.367°W
Located inGlamorgan, Wales     ( - 1974)
Also located inMid Glamorgan, Wales     (1974 - 1996)
Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales     (1996 - )
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Ynysybwl (Welsh: Ynys-y-bŵl) is a village in Cwm Clydach [valley] in Wales. It is situated in the county borough (or principal area) of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly 15 miles (24 km) north-northwest of Cardiff, 5 miles (8 km) north of Pontypridd and 16 miles (26 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the community or civil parish of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm.

Cwm Clydach is flanked by the Rhondda and Cynon Valleys. The market town of Pontypridd lies to the south at the meeting point of the three valleys; and to the north lies the large Llanwynno forestry. Before the local government reforms of 1996 Ynysybwl was in the Cynon Valley district of Morgannwg Ganol (or Mid Glamorgan), and the area is historically a part of Glamorgan (or Morgannwg in Welsh).

History

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Ynysybwl is located in the centre of the Llanwynno parish, at the point where the stream known as Y Ffrwd flows into the Nant Clydach. Then a collection of small local farms and meadows in a quiet and completely rural valley, at the 1841 census around 200 people lived in the village and surrounding farms.

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