Gwaelod-y-Garth
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View from Gwaelod-y-Garth by Penry Williams.
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View of Gwaelod-y-Garth.
Gwaelod-y-Garth (Welsh for Foot of the Garth) is a village in the parish of Pentyrch, South Glamorgan in Wales. It is situated between Cardiff and Pontypridd. In Elizabethan times, Gwaelod-y-Garth was noted for its iron-ore mines. The iron works were first opened between 1565 and 1625, and then re-opened in the 19th century by the Blackmoor Booker company. In the early 1990s, a campaign was held to save the works.
Famous residents of Gwaelod-y-Garth include Dr Mary Gillham, one of the first women to visit Antarctica in 1959, and Jane Davidson, Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government.
External links
- Pictures of Gwaelod-y-Garth (http://www.ccpentyrch.fsnet.co.uk/gwaelodcard.htm)
- Report on the iron workings (http://www.ccpentyrch.fsnet.co.uk/cwlwm56/page6.html)