Tonypandy
Tonypandy is a Town in the county of Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot).
There are great places to visit near Tonypandy.
Tonypandy History
There are some historic monuments around Tonypandy:
- Ventilation Furnace, Trehafod
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (W)
- Garn Bica
- Rhos-Gwawr cairn cemetery
- Mynydd Ton Cairns
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (E)
- Tarren y Bwlch round cairn
- Mynydd Maendy Hillfort
- Earthwork at Pant-y-Pyllau, Coity Higher
- Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace)
- Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairns
- Ring Cairn 350m W of Penrhiw Caradoc, Llanwonno
- Twyn y Bridallt Roman Camp
- Mynydd Maendy Round Cairn
- Hetty Pit
- Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthwork
- Coity Burial Chamber
- Llantrisant Castle
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown
- Carn-y-Pigwn Round Cairn
- Camp at Cwm Llwyd
- The Beacons Round Barrows
- Tarren Deusant Sculptured Rock & Spring
- Remains of Iron Furnace at Cwmaman
- Carn-y-Wiwer Cairnfield & Platform Houses
- Bwlch y Clawdd Dyke
- Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairn
- St Peter's Church, Remains of
- Mynydd y Gelli kerb cairn
- Darren Fawr Round Cairns
- Craig y Bwlch round cairn
- Castell Nos
- Mynydd y Gaer
- Rhondda Fach Cairn
- Tramroad East of Robert's Town Bridge, Aberdare
- Incline Haulage Systems, Cefn Ynysfeio, Treherbert
- Lle'r Gaer
History of Tonypandy
The regional library service recounts that the name ‘Tonypandy’ means the meadow of the fulling mill which was established there in 1838. “E. D. Lewis in his work The Rhondda Valleys provides us with an outline history of the mill that once stood in Tonypandy, and from which the town took its name”.
