Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RHYNDWRY-CLYDACH

RHYNDWRY-CLYDACH, a hamlet in Llangafelach parish, Glamorgan; 6½ miles N of Swansea. Real property, £6, 359; of which £1,070 are in mines, and £52 in canals. Pop. in 1851, 1, 578; in 1861, 1, 720. Houses, 336. Collieries here are connected by railway with canal navigation.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llangyfelach AP/CP       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Clydach

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