Aberdare
Aberdare is a Town in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Aberdare postcode: CF44 7AB
There are great places to visit near Aberdare.
Aberdare History
There are some historic monuments around Aberdare:
- Rhos-Gwawr cairn cemetery
- Carn-y-Wiwer Cairnfield & Platform Houses
- Abercanaid haystack boiler
- Mynydd y Garn round cairn
- Carn-y-Pigwn Round Cairn
- Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairns
- Castell Nos
- Pillow Mound at Bryn y Gwyddel
- Four Round Cairns on Mynydd-y-Glog
- Carn yr Arian Cairn
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (W)
- Ring Cairn 350m W of Penrhiw Caradoc, Llanwonno
- Garn Bica
- Round Cairn North of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Craig y Bwlch round cairn
- Mynydd y Gelli kerb cairn
- Mynydd y Garn Lluest East
- Cwm Pit and head of railway
- Ponsticill Inscribed Stone
- Gwersyll
- Penmoelallt Round Barrows
- Onllwyn Round Cairn
- Rhondda Fach Cairn
- Mynydd Maendy Hillfort
- Round Cairn and Ring Cairn South of Twyn-y-Glog
- Cwm Glo Chapel
- Carn Pentyle-Hir & Adjacent Round Cairn
- Carn Ddu platform cairn
- Pant Sychbant Round Cairn and Earthworks
- Cae Burdydd Castle
- Pant Sychbant Medieval Hamlet
- Twyn Bryn Glas round cairn
- Cyfarthfa Tramroad Section at Heolgerrig
- Cyfarthfa balance pond and leat
- Mynydd y Garn Lluest West
- Pant Sychbant Medieval House
- Nant-Maden Round Cairn
- Morlais Castle
- Wernlas hut circle
- Ring Cairn and Round Cairn on Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Cwm Criban Prehistoric Settlement
- Two Round Cairns on the Summit of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairn
- Cefn Cil-sanws defended enclosure
- Tai Mawr Leat for Cyfarthfa Iron Works
- Remains of Iron Furnace at Cwmaman
- Pant-y-Gadair Hut Circle Settlement
- Merthyr Tramroad: Morlais Castle section
- Garn Las Earthwork
- Site of Hirwaun Ironworks
- Cefn Cil-sanws, cairn on SW side of
- Cwmdu Air Shaft & Fan
- Enclosure East of Nant Cwm Moel
- Ring Cairn South of Twyn Blaennant
- Garn Pontsticill ring cairn
- Brynbychan Round Cairn
- Nant Morlais Hafod
- Cefn Sychbant, round cairns to the S of
- Mynydd y Garn Enclosure
- Remains of Blast Furnaces, Cyfarthfa Ironworks
- Nant Crew Inscribed Stone (now in Cefn Coed Church)
- Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthwork
- Cader Fawr Round Cairn
- Darren Fawr Round Cairns
- Tarren y Bwlch round cairn
- Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace)
- Cadair Fawr settlement
- Morlais Hill ring cairn
- Twyn y Bridallt Roman Camp
- Coetgae'r Gwartheg barrow cemetery
- Gurnos Quarry Tramroad & Leat
- Hut Circles & Enclosures on Buarth Maen
- Iron Canal Bridge from Rhydycar
- Remains of Gamlyn Railway Viaduct
- Pont y Cafnau Tramroad Bridge
- Ynys Fach Iron Furnaces
- Cefn Esgair-Carnau Round Cairns
- Mynydd Ton Cairns
- Merthyr Tramroad Tunnel (Trevithick's Tunnel)
- Enclosure on Coedcae'r Ychain
- Vale of Neath railway cutting and tunnel portal
- Iron Ore Scours and Patch Workings at Winch Fawr, Merthyr Tydfil
- Pontsticill platform cairn
- Incline Haulage Systems, Cefn Ynysfeio, Treherbert
- Cwm Glo pit and ironstone tip
- Black Pins early ironstone workings
- Cefn Sychbant Round Cairns
- Bwlch y Clawdd Dyke
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (E)
- Two Round Cairns at Onllwyn
- Cwm Cadlan Settlement and Field System
- Wernlas ring cairn and cairnfield
- Cyfarthfa Canal Level
- Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog
- Gelli-Isaf Tramroad Bridge, Abernant Tramroad
- Tramroad East of Robert's Town Bridge, Aberdare
- Cefn Car settlement
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown
- Cefn Cil-Sanws ring cairn
History of Aberdare
With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan’s (Trecynon) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic Church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery; and at one time there were over 50 Nonconformist chapels (including those in surrounding settlements such as Cwmaman and Llwydcoed). The services in the majority of the chapels were in Welsh. Most of these chapels have now closed, with many converted to other uses. The urban district includes what were once the separate villages of Aberaman, Abernant, Cwmaman, Cwmbach, Cwmdare, Llwydcoed, Penywaun and Trecynon. There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr. Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.