Pontarddulais
Sign in to savePontarddulais (), also spelled Pontardulais (), is a town and community in Swansea, Wales. It is northwest of the city centre. It is in the Pontarddulais ward of the City and County of Swansea Council. Pontarddulais adjoins the village of Hendy in Carmarthenshire. The built-up population was 9,073.
Key facts
- UK place.dial_code
- 01792
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Pontarddulais, St Teilo Street - geograph.org.uk - 184974.jpg
- UK place.official_name
- Pontarddulais
- UK place.community_wales
- Pontarddulais
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Swansea
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- West Glamorgan
- UK place.post_town
- SWANSEA
- UK place.postcode_district
- SA4
- UK place.postcode_area
- SA
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SN589037
- UK place.population
- 6,818
- UK place.population_ref
- (2024 Census)
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Gower
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Gower
- UK place.module
- 240pxMap of the community
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
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- History
- Education
- Transport
- Media and culture
- Welsh language
- Notable residents
- Twinning
- Redevelopment
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Pontarddulais (), also spelled Pontardulais (), is a town and community in Swansea, Wales. It is northwest of the city centre. It is in the Pontarddulais ward of the City and County of Swansea Council. Pontarddulais adjoins the village of Hendy in Carmarthenshire. The built-up population was 9,073.
==History== An English translation of the name Pontarddulais is "Bridge over the Dulais", with Dulais meaning "black stream", probably due to its course through coal measures. The earlier name of Pontaberdulais referred to a dismantled 14th-century road bridge which carried the main highway between Swansea and Carmarthen over the River Loughor (Afon Llwchwr). The bridge was so named because of its position upstream of the mouth (aber) of the Dulais stream. This bridge was also known as Y Bont Fawr ("the big bridge"). The village that developed around this bridge took the shortened name of Pontardulais, also written incorrectly as Pontarddulais because of the assumption that the bridge was "over Dulais". The bridge also gave the town its nickname "Y Bont".