Ystradgynlais
Sign in to saveYstradgynlais (; ) is a town in southwest Powys, Wales. It is located on the River Tawe, and was within the boundaries of the former county of Brecknockshire. The town has a high proportion of Welsh language-speakers. The community includes Cwmtwrch, Abercraf and Cwmgiedd, with a population of 8,092 in the 2011 census; it is the second-largest town in Powys. It forms part of the Swansea Urban Area where the Ystradgynlais subdivision has a population of 10,248.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Ystradgynlais Town, Junction.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Junction at Heol Eglwys
- UK place.population
- 8,092
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Brecon & Radnorshire
- UK place.official_name
- Ystradgynlais
- UK place.community_wales
- Ystradgynlais
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Powys
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Powys
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- UK place.post_town
- Swansea
- UK place.postcode_district
- SA9
- UK place.postcode_area
- SA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01639
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SN793106
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Ystradgynlais (; ) is a town in southwest Powys, Wales. It is located on the River Tawe, and was within the boundaries of the former county of Brecknockshire. The town has a high proportion of Welsh language-speakers. The community includes Cwmtwrch, Abercraf and Cwmgiedd, with a population of 8,092 in the 2011 census; it is the second-largest town in Powys. It forms part of the Swansea Urban Area where the Ystradgynlais subdivision has a population of 10,248.
==History== The place-name Ystradgynlais, meaning 'vale of the river Cynlais' – Cynlais may be a personal name, or derive from cyn ('chisel') and glais ('stream') – is first recorded in 1372. In the 1600s there were only a couple of houses by the church and a pub (now the rectory). In 1801 there were only 993 residents in the town living in only 196 houses. The first documented written evidence of iron working in the area was at Ynyscedwyn and is of a deed of release dated 1729. By 1750 there were seven furnaces in south Wales, one of which was at Ynyscedwyn.