Rhondda - Wales.
N 51° 38.487 W 003° 26.602
30U E 469320 N 5721253
Rhondda - better known as The Rhondda Valleys, are two Valleys the Rhondda Fawr and the Rhondda Fach. A region that used to be a coal mining area with dozens of collierys. and famous for the Treorchy Male voice choir
Waymark Code: WMF1RG
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/07/2012
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The co-ordinates were taken at the Lady of Penrhys (Mair Penrhys)Statue at about 1100 feet above sea level, half way between Rhondda Fawr and the Rhondda Fach Valleys, a full photo of the sculpture has been added to the listing gallery.
My default photo is Cwmparc leading into Treorchy in the Rhondda Fawr
(with the sheep in the forground)
The Miners family scupture ommemorative statue to the "Mining Communities of Rhondda" Robert Thomas (1926-1999) is located in LLynapia, Rhondda Fawr. (Similar photos appear in the Wiki Listing)
The Tower coliery shown is at the end of the Rhondda Fawr valley after Treherbert
All the other photos, show the Rhondda Fach Valley looking towards Wattstown and Tylorstown.
"Before coal was mined in the area known then as Ystradyfodwg - later to become known as the Rhondda Valleys - the area was amongst the most picturesque in Wales. It was described by Charles Cliffes as having "meadows of emerald greenness", and the air as being "aromatic with the scent of wild flowers and mountain plants".
By the time the area became known as the Rhondda Valleys, the description would have dramatically changed, and few places in the Valleys had escaped the blackness from the coal dust that spread through the Rhondda rivers and covered the Rhondda mountains with coal waste.
The overwhelming majority of the Rhondda Valleys households where occupied by colliers and their families, and certainly in the early days trades associated with house building, as all of the thousands of Rhondda terraced houses were new builds. The stone for these houses was quarried from the hillsides where the houses were being built, and can still be seen today." Source: (
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