Pencoed
Sign in to savePencoed (also Pen-coed; ) is a town and community in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales. It straddles the M4 motorway north east of Bridgend and is situated on the Ewenny River. At the 2022 census it had a population of 10,011.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Pencoed War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 2268432.jpg
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- Pencoed War Memorial
- UK place.official_name
- Pencoed
- UK place.population
- 9,166
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Bridgend
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Mid Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bridgend
- UK place.post_town
- BRIDGEND
- UK place.postcode_district
- CF35
- UK place.postcode_area
- CF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01656
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS957815
- UK place.module
- 240pxMap of the community
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- Toponymy and pronunciation
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- Sport
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Pencoed (also Pen-coed; ) is a town and community in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales. It straddles the M4 motorway north east of Bridgend and is situated on the Ewenny River. At the 2022 census it had a population of 10,011.
==Toponymy and pronunciation== The name appears as "Penkoyt" in a 1303 deed of Ewenny Priory and as "Pencoyd" in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The name is likely a contraction of pen-y-coed (head/top/end of the forest/wood) and has historically been given as both Pen-coed and Pencoed. While some local business, roads and signage use the hyphenated version, the Welsh Language Commissioner recommends the spelling in both English and Welsh to be "Pencoed".