Cwmpennar
Encyclopedia
Cwmpennar is a small village
in Mountain Ash which is situated in the Cynon Valley
, Rhondda Cynon Taff
, Wales
.
It lies opposite an ex coal mining
pit. Cwmpennar is part of the CDWA Cefnpennar
District Welfare Association.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in Mountain Ash which is situated in the Cynon Valley
Cynon Valley
The Cynon Valley , is a famous former coal mining valley within the South Wales Valleys of Wales. The Cynon Valley lies between the other mining Valley of Rhondda and the iron industrial Valley of the Merthyr Valley. Its main towns are Aberdare located North of the Valley and Mountain Ash located...
, Rhondda Cynon Taff
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Rhondda Cynon Taf, or RCT, is a county borough in the South Wales Valleys of Wales. It consists of 3 valleys: the Rhondda Valley, Cynon Valley and Taff-Ely Valley...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
.
It lies opposite an ex coal mining
Coal mining
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...
pit. Cwmpennar is part of the CDWA Cefnpennar
Cefnpennar
Cefnpennar is a small rural village north of the coal mining town of Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, in Wales. It is approximately 1 mile from Mountain Ash town centre and a bus runs daily...
District Welfare Association.