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Penrhiwceiber
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Penrhiwceiber () is a village and community (and electoral ward, spelt Penrhiw-ceibr) in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, that lies south of the town Aberpennar and north of the village of Tyntetown, and is one of many villages that lies within the Cynon Valley. Prior to 1870 the area was heavy woodland, but the opening of the Penrhiwceiber Colliery in 1878 saw its rapid expansion into a thriving village.
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It sits within the topics Coal mining in Wales, Communities in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Villages in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
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- Cymru / Wales
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- United Kingdom
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- community
- Official name
- Penrhiw-ceibr
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Population
- 5789
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Penrhiwceiber () is a village and community (and electoral ward, spelt Penrhiw-ceibr) in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, that lies south of the town Aberpennar and north of the village of Tyntetown, and is one of many villages that lies within the Cynon Valley. Prior to 1870 the area was heavy woodland, but the opening of the Penrhiwceiber Colliery in 1878 saw its rapid expansion into a thriving village.
==Etymology== Penrhiwceiber, according to Thomas Morgan in his 1887 publication, should be worded as Pen-Rhiw-Cae-Byr - 'Top of the hill of the little field'. Other thoughts refer to the word ceiber, which means joist, beam or rafter and may suggest a place where timber was plentiful, which would certainly describe the area, which was a heavy woodland, before the coming of the coal trade.
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