Pant, Merthyr Tydfil
Encyclopedia
Pant is a village and community
on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil
, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys
, Wales
. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway
, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
Community (Wales)
A community is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest-tier of local government in Wales. Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England....
on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil is a town in Wales, with a population of about 30,000. Although once the largest town in Wales, it is now ranked as the 15th largest urban area in Wales. It also gives its name to a county borough, which has a population of around 55,000. It is located in the historic county of...
, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys
South Wales Valleys
The South Wales Valleys are a number of industrialised valleys in South Wales, stretching from eastern Carmarthenshire in the west to western Monmouthshire in the east and from the Heads of the Valleys in the north to the lower-lying, pastoral country of the Vale of Glamorgan and the coastal plain...
, 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...
. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway
Brecon Mountain Railway
The Brecon Mountain Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway that runs through the Brecon Beacons along the full length of the Pontsticill Reservoir...
, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
External links
- Old Merthyr Tydfil: Pantyscallog (Pant) - Historical Photographs of Pantyscallog (Pant), Merthyr Tydfil.