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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cefnpennar like this:
CEFNPENNAR, a hamlet in Aberdare parish, Glamorgan; on the river Cynon, the Merthyr-Tydvil canal, and the Taf Valley railway, under Twynmawr, 4½ miles SW of Merthyr-Tydvil. Real property, £32,867; of which £15,096 are in mines, £8,000 in iron-works, £2,185 in canals, and £60 in quarries. Pop., 834.
Cefnpennar is now part of RHONDDA; CYNON; TAFF District. Click here for graphs and data of how RHONDDA; CYNON; TAFF has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cefnpennar itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cefnpennar, in Rhondda; Cynon; Taff and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23264
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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