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Rhondda No. 3 11 Ynyshir House 1845 Shepherd & Evans Ynyshir 1909 55 (1908) Rhondda No. 2 12 Perch Levels 1847 William Perch Blaenclydach: Unknown Unknown Rhondda No. 2 13 Cymmer (Old) Colliery: 1847 George Insole & Son Cymmer 1940 780 (1918) Rhondda No. 3 14 Coedcae Colliery 1850 Edward Mills Trehafod: 1935 585 (1923) Rhondda No. 3 15
In the 1840s coal mining began in the valley, but this was on a small scale and no pits were sunk at this time. Towards the end of the century there was a marked increase in mining activity, several collieries being opened, including Lefel-Y-Bush (1863), Blaenclydach (1863), Cwmclydach (1864) and Clydach Vale Collieries Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
Blaencwm (Welsh: Blaen-y-Cwm) is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, lying at the head the Rhondda Fawr valley. Two collieries were opened here during the Industrial Revolution, the Dunraven Colliery in 1865 and the Glenrhondda Colliery in 1911. Both had closed by 1966 and the sites have since been landscaped, leaving ...
Ferndale Collieries at WelshCoalMines.co.uk Ferndale Collieries at Rhondda Cynon Taf 51°39′28″N 3°26′45″W / 51.65778°N 3.44583°W / 51.65778; -3
Maerdy Colliery was a coal mine located in the South Wales village of Maerdy (Welsh: Y Maerdy), in the Rhondda Valley, located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. Opened in 1875, it closed in December 1990.
The Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967 near Clydach Vale in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. It is notable for its huge production and for two infamous explosion disasters, in 1905 and 1965, in which a total of 64 miners were killed.
Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery .
Cymmer Independent Chapel, said to be the first nonconformist chapel in the Rhondda, dates from 1743 and had connections to the revivalist Howel Harris. It was the mother church of all the Congregational chapels in the valley. In 1856, forty-eight victims of the Cymmer Colliery disaster were buried in the chapel graveyard.