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Hopkinstown in the Parish of Llanwonno
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"Hopkinstown, 2 miles from Pontypridd, Glamorgan; P.O." [From John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles 1887 on Vision of Britain]
"HOPKINSTOWN, 2 miles distant, is a village, and has a post and money order office, and also Calvinistio Methodist, Wesleyan and Baptist chapels." [From Kelly's South Wales Directory 1923 (ArchiveCDBooks) - transcribed by Gareth Hicks]
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The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-
- Church of St. David
See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St David's Church, Rhondda Rd, Hopkinstown
Capel Rhondda, Hopkinstown, pre-1905 - on the People's Collection Wales site
For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives
Llanddewi Rhondda was formed in 1914 from the Parish of Llanwonno, and the church erected in 1851
The church is dedicated to St. David, is in the Benefice of Pwllgwaun with Llanddewi Rhondda, and the diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference ST057907.
| Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff | ||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | Bishops Transcripts |
| 1897-1916 | 1854-1924 | - | - | - |
Hopkinstown - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site
Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
Transcript of name listing for Pontypridd, and district, from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-
| 1880 | (Slaters Directory) |
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hopkinstown in the Parish of Llanwonno to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST062905 (Lat/Lon: 51.605496, -3.355851), Hopkinstown in the Parish of Llanwonno which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown - where the disaster of 14th April 1893 killed 58 miners. Here is the Death Roll on the Welsh Coal Mines site
Great Western Colliery Band, Hopkinstown, 1920 - on the People's Collection Wales site (use search box)