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Rhondda / ˈrɒnðə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.
Rhondda Cynon Taf (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ɔnða ˈkənɔn ˈtaːv]; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff ( Welsh : Taf ) and Ely valleys, plus several towns and villages away from the valleys.
Nov 12, 2022 · There’s a whole bunch of Rhondda placenames which are simple enough to understand if you know a bit of Welsh: Pentre – ‘village’; Dinas – ‘city’ or ‘hill-fort’; Ystrad – ‘a vale’, the flat floor of a valley.
Rhondda, community and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), southern Wales. Rhondda comprises two almost continuous belts of settlement along the valleys of the Rivers Rhondda Fawr (“Great Rhondda”) and Rhondda Fach.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 12, 2013 · The Rhondda consists of two valleys, being Rhondda Fawr (big) and Rhondda Fach (small). As South Wales became the greatest steam coal exporting centre in the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Rhondda was central to this phenomenal growth.
The Rhondda Valley or just the Rhondda in Glamorgan is the valley of the River Rhondda. It is a heavily urbanised valley, a former coal mining valley with about 60,000 inhabitants in its towns and villages, all pressed along the deep course of the valley.
Jun 28, 2024 · Rhondda. June 2024. From the high plateau of Blaenau Morgannwg in Glamorgan, the two deep and steep-sided glacial valleys drop sharply to the south east in the direction of Wales’s capital, Cardiff. Within them flow two of the South Wales’s familiar rivers, the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach (“Big” and “Little” Rhondda respectively).
