Aberdare

Aberdare is a town in the Cynon Valley region of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the conjunction of the Rivers Dare Dar and Cynon. The populace at the 2001 enumeration was 31,705 positioned thirteenth biggest in Wales. Aberdare is 4 miles south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, 20 miles north-west of Cardiff and 22 miles east-north-east of Swansea. Amid the 19th century it turned into a flourishing modern settlement, which was additionally outstanding for the imperativeness of its social life and as a vital distributing focus. Aberdare dates from the Middle Ages.

It was initially a little town in an agrarian region, based on the Church of St John the Baptist, said to date from 1189. By the center of the 15th century, Aberdare contained a water process notwithstanding ious covered bungalows, of which no proof remains. In the mid 19th century the populace developed quickly, inferable from the bounty of coal and iron mineral,: the number of inhabitants in the entire area 1,486 out of 1801, expanded ten times amid the primary portion of the 19th century.

Two noteworthy enterprises bolstered the development of the network: first iron, at that point coal. A part of the Glamorganshire Canal 1811 was utilized to transport these items; at that point the railroad turned into the primary methods for transport toward the South Wales coast. From the 1870s onwards, the economy of the town was commanded by the coal mining industry, with just a little tinplate works.