Penygraig
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Penygraig is a village and community in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. As a community Penygraig contains the neighbouring districts of Dinas, Edmondstown, Penrhiwfer and Williamstown. Penygraig is within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. The name Penygraig is Welsh for 'head of the rock'.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tonypandy
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.population
- 5554
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image
- Penygraig Labour Club - geograph.org.uk - 414402.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Penygraig Labour Club
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Rhondda
- UK place.official_name
- Penygraig
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Mid Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Rhondda and Ogmore
- UK place.post_town
- TONYPANDY
- UK place.postcode_district
- CF40
- UK place.postcode_area
- CF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01443
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS995915
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Pen-y-graig
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Population
- 5554
- Image
- Penygraig Labour Club - geograph.org.uk - 414402.jpg
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- OS grid reference
- SS995915
- postal code
- CF40
- Commons category
- Penygraig
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P8168
- sterlet
- P12749
- John Locke
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Early history
- Industrial Penygraig
- The Naval Colliery pit disasters
- Governance
- Sport and leisure
- Notable people
- External links
- References
Penygraig is a village and community in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. As a community Penygraig contains the neighbouring districts of Dinas, Edmondstown, Penrhiwfer and Williamstown. Penygraig is within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. The name Penygraig is Welsh for 'head of the rock'.
==Early history== The original settlement which is now Penygraig was called Ffrwd Amos, though as with the rest of the Rhondda before industrialisation the only settlements were farmsteads. In 1832, Soar, one of the first baptist chapels in the Rhondda was built at Penygraig by preacher David Williams.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penygraig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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