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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.
Trecynon was formerly known as Heol-y-Felin (English: The Mill Road), as the early settlement was centred around the road leading to Llwydcoed Mill (the Heol-y-Felin road is known today in English as Mill Street).
With the opening of the ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800, the settlement became an urbanised village, with housing and amenities (such as the 1855 Heolyfelin Chapel) built away from the Heol-y-Felin itself. As such, an eisteddfod competition was organised to decide a new name for the village, with the name Trecynon (English: Town on the Cynon) being declared the winner. From around 1860, the new name was widely adopted by both Welsh and English speakers; although Thomas Morgan recorded the village as still being named Heolyfelin in the 1887, despite the Mill itself no longer being extant.
The first buildings in Trecynon were Llwydcoed Mill, the Hen-Dy-Cwrdd in 1751 and a single solitary house built next to it. Thomas Morgan states that first houses were built by Morgan Watkin in 1792, when the developing iron industry increased the demand for housing and the village of Heolyfelin began to grow. In 1811, the Robertstown Tramway Bridge, was built over the river Cynon, linking Heolyfelin and Robertstown. It is the oldest of its kind in the world.
By the 1860s, Heolyfelin had become one of the main population centres in the parish of Aberdare; Harriet Street, Ebenezer Street, Alma Street, Mount Pleasant Street and Margaret Street were all built in this period. Such rapid and intensive development inevitably led to public health problems, as were revealed in 1853 when Thomas Webster Rammell prepared a report for the general Board of Health on the condition of public health in Aberdare. Heolyfelin was not considered the worst case in the district, by any means, but there were concerns. John Griffith, Vicar of Aberdare, reported that:
There is not, to my knowledge, a place in Aberdare more filthy than the neighbourhood of the Royal Oak in the same quarter of the town. Mill-Street proper is in a very bad state from the ash-heaps of rubbish and filth thrown into and lying on the centre of the road.
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Likewise, local industrialist Rees Hopkin Rhys reported:
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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.
Trecynon was formerly known as Heol-y-Felin (English: The Mill Road), as the early settlement was centred around the road leading to Llwydcoed Mill (the Heol-y-Felin road is known today in English as Mill Street).
With the opening of the ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800, the settlement became an urbanised village, with housing and amenities (such as the 1855 Heolyfelin Chapel) built away from the Heol-y-Felin itself. As such, an eisteddfod competition was organised to decide a new name for the village, with the name Trecynon (English: Town on the Cynon) being declared the winner. From around 1860, the new name was widely adopted by both Welsh and English speakers; although Thomas Morgan recorded the village as still being named Heolyfelin in the 1887, despite the Mill itself no longer being extant.
The first buildings in Trecynon were Llwydcoed Mill, the Hen-Dy-Cwrdd in 1751 and a single solitary house built next to it. Thomas Morgan states that first houses were built by Morgan Watkin in 1792, when the developing iron industry increased the demand for housing and the village of Heolyfelin began to grow. In 1811, the Robertstown Tramway Bridge, was built over the river Cynon, linking Heolyfelin and Robertstown. It is the oldest of its kind in the world.
By the 1860s, Heolyfelin had become one of the main population centres in the parish of Aberdare; Harriet Street, Ebenezer Street, Alma Street, Mount Pleasant Street and Margaret Street were all built in this period. Such rapid and intensive development inevitably led to public health problems, as were revealed in 1853 when Thomas Webster Rammell prepared a report for the general Board of Health on the condition of public health in Aberdare. Heolyfelin was not considered the worst case in the district, by any means, but there were concerns. John Griffith, Vicar of Aberdare, reported that:
There is not, to my knowledge, a place in Aberdare more filthy than the neighbourhood of the Royal Oak in the same quarter of the town. Mill-Street proper is in a very bad state from the ash-heaps of rubbish and filth thrown into and lying on the centre of the road.
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Likewise, local industrialist Rees Hopkin Rhys reported: