RHYMNEY, a village and a chapelry in Bedwelty parish, Monmouth. The village stands on the river Rhymney, at the terminus of the Rhymney railway, adjacent to the meeting-point with Breconshire and Glamorgan, 2½ miles W of Tredegar; and has a post-office‡under Tredegar, and a railway station with telegraph. The chapelry was constituted in 1839. Pop. in 1861, 7, 630. Houses, 1, 390. Extensive iron-works are here; and have furnaces in a massive Egyptian form of architecture. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £300.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is good.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))