List of places in Merthyr Tydfil
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This page provides a list of county borough wards in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil is a town in Wales, with a population of about 30,000. Although once the largest town in Wales, it is now ranked as the 15th largest urban area in Wales. It also gives its name to a county borough, which has a population of around 55,000. It is located in the historic county of...

. It also provides a list of recognised settlements within those wards which form a part of a ward.

County Borough Wards

  • Bedlinog
    Bedlinog
    Bedlinog is a small village located in the Taff Bargoed Valley 10 km north of Pontypridd, 10 km west of Caerphilly and 10 km south east of Merthyr Tydfil in south-east Wales...

  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa is a community of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. As of 2001, it has a population of 6141. Cyfartha mainly consists of the settlements of Gellideg and Heolgerrig....

  • Dowlais
    Dowlais
    Dowlais is a village and community of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. As of 2001, it has a population of 6646.Dowlais is notable within Wales and Britain for its historic association with ironworking; once employing, through the Dowlais Iron Company, roughly 5,000 people, the works...

  • Gurnos
    Gurnos
    Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate, a large housing estate established by Merthyr Tydfil Council in the early 1950s and expanded over many years...

  • Merthyr Vale
    Merthyr Vale
    Merthyr Vale is a linear village in the Welsh county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Lying on the A4054 road it is on the east bank of the River Taff opposite Aberfan.-Ynys Owen:...

  • Park
    Park, Merthyr Tydfil
    Park is a community of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. As of 2001, it has a population of 4307.Park has several notable landmarks, but its most notable is Cyfarthfa Castle, which dominates the community....

  • Penydarren
    Penydarren
    Penydarren Ironworks was the fourth of the great ironworks established at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.Built in 1784 by the brothers Samuel Homfray, Jeremiah Homfray, and Thomas Homfray, all sons of Francis Homfray of Stourbridge. Their father, Francis, for a time managed a nail warehouse there...

  • Plymouth
  • Town
  • Treharris
    Treharris
    Treharris is a small town and community in the Taff Bargoed Valley in the south of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It is located around 1 km west of Trelewis, from which it is separated by the Taff Bargoed river, and 1.5 km from Nelson in Caerphilly county borough and...

  • Vaynor
    Vaynor
    Vaynor is a village, parish and community in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom.- Location :...


Settlements

  • Abercanaid
    Abercanaid
    Abercanaid is a small village in the Welsh county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom with a population of about 5,060. It is situated 2.5 miles south of Merthyr town centre and is west of Pentrebach, across the River Taff and north of Troedyrhiw...

  • Pentrebach
    Pentrebach
    Pentrebach is a village in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It lies on the east side of the River Taff opposite Abercanaid, South of Merthyr and North of Troedyrhiw. To the east of the village lies the Mynydd Cilfach-yr-Encil which rises up to 445 m...

  • Twynyrodyn
  • Cefn Coed-y-cymmer
  • Georgetown
  • Dowlais Top, Caeharris
  • Pengarnddu
  • Heolgerrig
    Heolgerrig
    Heolgerrig is a small village in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, at the base of the recently constructed Cyfarthfa Retail Park. It is part of the community of Cyfarthfa.-External links:* - Historical Photographs of Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil....

  • Galon Uchaf
  • Gurnos
    Gurnos
    Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate, a large housing estate established by Merthyr Tydfil Council in the early 1950s and expanded over many years...

  • Pantyscallog
  • Aberfan
    Aberfan
    The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.-Mining debris:...

  • Edwardsville
  • Quakers Yard
    Quakers Yard
    Quakers Yard is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins the Taff Valley. Quakers Yard is part of the community of Treharris.-History:...

  • Maerdy
    Maerdy
    Maerdy is a village and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying at the head of the Rhondda Fach Valley.- History :...

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