Pontycymer is a former mining village in Wales. It is situated in the Garw Valley, in Bridgend County Borough . The name, sometimes spelled "Pontycymmer", is Welsh: pont signifies "bridge", while cymer signifies "confluence" of watercourses.
Population: 4,424
Latitude: 51° 36' 40.25" N
Longitude: -3° 35' 3.16" W
Bassaleg School (Welsh: Ysgol Basaleg) is a comprehensive secondary school for pupils aged 11-18, situated in the suburb of Bassaleg on the western side of the city Newport, South Wales. The present buildings of the school range in age from the earl…
Abercraf (English: Abercrave) is a village within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire in the modern county of Powys, Wales.
Whitchurch Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Whitchurch, an area in the north of Cardiff. As well as general psychiatry, services include elderly psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, forensic psychiatry, rehabilitation and addiction services.
The Swansea Valley (Welsh: Cwm Tawe), one of the South Wales Valleys, is the name often given to the valley of the River Tawe area in Southern Wales, UK. It reaches southwest and south from the Brecon Beacons National Park down to the city of Swanse…
Swansea Sound is an independent local radio station broadcasting to Swansea and surrounding areas, aimed at a core 40+ demographic.
The Swansea Canal (Welsh: Camlas Abertawe) was a canal constructed by the Swansea Canal Navigation Company between 1794 and 1798, running for some 16.5 miles (26.6 km) from Swansea to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf in South Wales. It was steeply graded, and 3…
St David's Catholic College (Welsh: Coleg Catholig Dewi Sant) is a sixth form college located in Cardiff, Wales.
Singleton Hospital is a 550-bed hospital located in Sketty Lane, Swansea, Wales, operated by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board. The main building was completed in 1958. The hospital adjoins Singleton Park and the main campus of the Swan…
Rumney (Welsh: Tredelerch) is a district in the east of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It lies east of the Rhymney River, and is historically part of Monmouthshire.
Rogerstone (Welsh: Tŷ du, meaning "Black house") is a village, ward and community (parish) of the city of Newport, southeastern Wales. The area is governed by the Newport City Council. Historically the village was in Monmouthshire up to 1974 and lat…
The River Loughor (/ˈlʌxər/) (Welsh: Afon Llwchwr) in Carmarthenshire, Wales has its source at an underground lake at the Black Mountain and emerges at the surface from Llygad Llwchwr which translates from the Welsh as "eye of the Loughor". It flows…
HM Prison Prescoed is a Category D men's open prison, located in Coed-y-paen, three miles from Usk in Monmouthshire, South Wales. Prescoed is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and acts as a satellite prison of the nearby HMP Usk.
Porth yr Ogof is a cave located near the village of Ystradfellte, near the southern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. In 1998 the cave's passageways had been measured as over 2.25 km in length. Among the cave's fifteen entrances…
Port Talbot Parkway railway station is a railway station in Port Talbot, Wales.
Penydarren Ironworks was the fourth of the great ironworks established at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.
Penwyllt (Welsh:wild headland ) is a Welsh hamlet located in the upper Swansea Valley, to the east of the Black Mountain.
Ogmore Vale (Welsh: Cwm Ogwr) is a village in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales on the River Ogmore. The village's main source of income came from coal mining. Up until the year 1865, the Ogmore valley was a quiet, isolated, rural hill farming c…
Nantgarw is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, near Cardiff.