Aberdare
Aberdare is a Town in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Aberdare postcode: CF44 7AB
There are great places to visit near Aberdare.
Aberdare History
There are some historic monuments around Aberdare:
- Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace)
- Cefn Cil-sanws defended enclosure
- Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Nant-Maden Round Cairn
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown
- Gurnos Quarry Tramroad & Leat
- Vale of Neath railway cutting and tunnel portal
- Cader Fawr Round Cairn
- Bwlch y Clawdd Dyke
- Pant Sychbant Round Cairn and Earthworks
- Rhondda Fach Cairn
- Mynydd y Garn Lluest East
- Cwm Criban Prehistoric Settlement
- Enclosure on Coedcae'r Ychain
- Pontsticill platform cairn
- Mynydd y Garn Enclosure
- Remains of Gamlyn Railway Viaduct
- Ring Cairn and Round Cairn on Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Cwm Glo pit and ironstone tip
- Darren Fawr Round Cairns
- Cefn Sychbant, round cairns to the S of
- Black Pins early ironstone workings
- Gelli-Isaf Tramroad Bridge, Abernant Tramroad
- Ring Cairn 350m W of Penrhiw Caradoc, Llanwonno
- Mynydd y Gelli kerb cairn
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (W)
- Cefn Car settlement
- Incline Haulage Systems, Cefn Ynysfeio, Treherbert
- Carn-y-Wiwer Cairnfield & Platform Houses
- Cyfarthfa balance pond and leat
- Mynydd Maendy Hillfort
- Cefn Cil-sanws, cairn on SW side of
- Merthyr Tramroad: Morlais Castle section
- Cefn Esgair-Carnau Round Cairns
- Cyfarthfa Canal Level
- Nant Crew Inscribed Stone (now in Cefn Coed Church)
- Twyn y Bridallt Roman Camp
- Penmoelallt Round Barrows
- Remains of Blast Furnaces, Cyfarthfa Ironworks
- Pillow Mound at Bryn y Gwyddel
- Pant Sychbant Medieval Hamlet
- Garn Las Earthwork
- Carn-y-Pigwn Round Cairn
- Ponsticill Inscribed Stone
- Mynydd Ton Cairns
- Mynydd y Garn Lluest West
- Enclosure East of Nant Cwm Moel
- Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairns
- Cadair Fawr settlement
- Garn Bica
- Craig y Bwlch round cairn
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (E)
- Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairn
- Ynys Fach Iron Furnaces
- Morlais Hill ring cairn
- Cwmdu Air Shaft & Fan
- Abercanaid haystack boiler
- Carn yr Arian Cairn
- Iron Canal Bridge from Rhydycar
- Pant Sychbant Medieval House
- Cwm Cadlan Settlement and Field System
- Pont y Cafnau Tramroad Bridge
- Cae Burdydd Castle
- Carn Ddu platform cairn
- Merthyr Tramroad Tunnel (Trevithick's Tunnel)
- Iron Ore Scours and Patch Workings at Winch Fawr, Merthyr Tydfil
- Nant Morlais Hafod
- Two Round Cairns on the Summit of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Round Cairn and Ring Cairn South of Twyn-y-Glog
- Mynydd y Garn round cairn
- Cwm Glo Chapel
- Hut Circles & Enclosures on Buarth Maen
- Tarren y Bwlch round cairn
- Morlais Castle
- Tai Mawr Leat for Cyfarthfa Iron Works
- Ring Cairn South of Twyn Blaennant
- Onllwyn Round Cairn
- Garn Pontsticill ring cairn
- Rhos-Gwawr cairn cemetery
- Tramroad East of Robert's Town Bridge, Aberdare
- Castell Nos
- Carn Pentyle-Hir & Adjacent Round Cairn
- Four Round Cairns on Mynydd-y-Glog
- Wernlas hut circle
- Twyn Bryn Glas round cairn
- Round Cairn North of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Gwersyll
- Two Round Cairns at Onllwyn
- Cyfarthfa Tramroad Section at Heolgerrig
- Cwm Pit and head of railway
- Coetgae'r Gwartheg barrow cemetery
- Wernlas ring cairn and cairnfield
- Remains of Iron Furnace at Cwmaman
- Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthwork
- Cefn Sychbant Round Cairns
- Site of Hirwaun Ironworks
- Cefn Cil-Sanws ring cairn
- Brynbychan Round Cairn
- Pant-y-Gadair Hut Circle Settlement
History of Aberdare
With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan’s (Trecynon) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic Church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery; and at one time there were over 50 Nonconformist chapels (including those in surrounding settlements such as Cwmaman and Llwydcoed). The services in the majority of the chapels were in Welsh. Most of these chapels have now closed, with many converted to other uses. The urban district includes what were once the separate villages of Aberaman, Abernant, Cwmaman, Cwmbach, Cwmdare, Llwydcoed, Penywaun and Trecynon. There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr. Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.