Pentre
Sign in to savePentre is a village, community and electoral ward near Treorchy in the Rhondda valley, falling within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village's name is taken from the Welsh word Pentref, which translates as homestead, though Pentre is named after a large farm that dominated the area before the coming of industrialisation. The community takes in the neighbouring village of Ton Pentre.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Pentre
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Rhondda
- UK place.population
- 5,232
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Mid Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Rhondda
- UK place.post_town
- Pentre
- UK place.postcode_district
- CF41
- UK place.postcode_area
- CF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01443
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS968961
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- Notable people
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Pentre is a village, community and electoral ward near Treorchy in the Rhondda valley, falling within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village's name is taken from the Welsh word Pentref, which translates as homestead, though Pentre is named after a large farm that dominated the area before the coming of industrialisation. The community takes in the neighbouring village of Ton Pentre.
==Toponymy== Pentre village in Welsh, from pentref (pen head and tref town).