Mountain Ash

Mountain Ash is a metropolis within the Cynon Valley, inside the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. At the 2001 census, Mountain Ash had a populace of 7,039 growing to 7,374 at the 2011 Census. The Mountain Ash geographical vicinity incorporates and includes the districts and villages of Cefnpennar, Cwmpennar, Caegarw, Darranlas, Fernhill, Glenboi and Newtown. Mountain Ash lies within the historical county barriers of Glamorgan.

The city lies about 4.5 miles south of the town of Aberdare and about 19 miles northwest of Cardiff. The village and network of Penrhiwceiber lies around a mile south of Mountain Ash. From an administrative factor of view, Mountain Ash is break up into electoral wards: Mountain Ash West takes into consideration the city centre, together with the districts of Miskin, Darranlas, Fernhill and Glenboi; Mountain Ash East accommodates the closing districts of Cefnpennar, Cwmpennar, Caegarw and Newtown.

Lancaiach Fawr Manor is a Tudor manor residence close to the village of Nelson, positioned just to the north of the site of the previous Llancaiach Colliery in the heart of the Rhymney Valley in South Wales. The semi-fortified house changed into built at the website online of an in advance medieval shape, both on pinnacle of the preceding living or possibly included within the eastern cease of that building. It is a Grade I indexed building and is now best known as the house of Colonel Edward Prichard died 1655, who hosted a go to with the aid of King Charles I of England in 1645.