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Treherbert in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg
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"TREHERBERT is a township forming part of the Rhondda Urban District and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1893 fron Rhondda; it is in the Miskin hundred, Pontypridd union and county court district, rural deanery of Rhondda and archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaff. The town lies amongst mountainous and picturesque scenery at the foot of Penpych, which rises 1,700 feet above the level of the sea; it is 11 miles north-west from Pontypridd and is the terminus of the Rhondda branch of the Great Western railway, and also of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay branch of that railway.
The church of St. Alban, TYNEWYDD, erected in 1891, at a cost of £1600, is a small building of stone, in the Early English style, ... : there are 330 sittings. The living is a vicarage, endowed in May, 1899, net yearly income £190, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff and the Board of Patronage, ...
The church of St. Mary, a chapel of ease to St. Alban's, and erected by the Marquess of Bute in 1867, at a cost of £4000 is a building of Welsh sandstone with Bath stone dressings, ... there are over 350 sittings. All Saints, also a chapel of ease to St. Alban's, erected in 1894, at a cost of £2380, is a building of stone, ... and will seat 350 persons. The Public Hall, erected in 1872, at a cost of £2.500, and now the Treherbert Opera House, will seat 800 persons. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 8,826, and in 1911, 13,393." [Kelly's South Wales Directory 1923 (ArchiveCDBooks) - transcribed by Gareth Hicks]
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Treherbert Library
Bute Square
Treherbert
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The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-
- Carmel Independant Chapel
- Libanus Baptist Chapel
Horeb Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Treherbert - 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
The church is dedicated to St. Alban, is in the Benefice of Treherbert with Treorchy, 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 SS956970.
| Anglican Parish Registers | ||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | Bishops Transcripts |
| No Registers have been deposited yet | ||||
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Treherbert Ecclesiastical Parish records ".......... including registers of baptisms, 1893-1959; marriages, 1891-1998"
| Non Conformist Registers Deposited | |||||
| Chapel | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | OS Map Ref | Deposited |
| Bethany, Baptist | - | 1934-1938 | - | SS 93749856 | GRO |
| Horeb, Calvinistic Methodist | - | 1908-1970 | - | SS 93639850 | NLW |
GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Rhondda - on the CADW site.
Fully explore the site - there are separate detailed sections for places in the area
Treherbert - on Wikipedia
Treherbert - on the RCT Photo Archive - use search box
Treherbert - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site
Transcript of complete name listing for Treherbert and Ystrad-Rhondda, with the parish and hamlets of Ystradyfodwg, Blaen-y-cwm, Blaen-y-Rhondda, Cwmdare, Cwmpark, Llwynpia, Pen-y-graig, Penyrenglyn, Pentre, Ton-pentre-ystrad, Ton-y-pandy, Treorky, Tynewydd and Tynybedw, from Slaters Directory for 1880.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Treherbert in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS941983 (Lat/Lon: 51.673455, -3.532873), Treherbert in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg 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.
- Bute Colliery, Treherbert on the Welsh Coal Mines site
- Fernhill Colliery, Treherbert on the Welsh Coal Mines site
- Lady Margaret Colliery, Treherbert on the Welsh Coal Mines site
- Ynysfeio Colliery, Penyrenglyn, Treherbert on the Welsh Coal Mines site
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Treherbert Hospital, Rhondda records 1928-83 "......... established by grants from the Miners' Welfare Fund and by public subscription. The hospital was opened in 1927............."
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Treherbert Secondary School records "Diary 1955-65" ".........established in 1929 as a Senior school. ....................."
Treherbert and District Band - "Treherbert Band is one of the longest established bands in the South Wales area. Historians believe it was originally the Treherbert Drum and Fife Band, in existence around 1897, which was the forerunner to today's band..................."
Treherbert Soccer Team, 1901 - on the People's Collection Wales site