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| | GENUKI: Slaters Commercial Directory, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, 1880 |
 | | PONTYPRIDD, late Newbridge, is a thriving market town in the hundred of Miskin, county of Glamorgan unio and county court district of its own name, and Bristol district court of bankruptcy, situated in the parishes of Eglwysilan, Llantwit Vardre and Llanwonno, and on the river taff at its junction with the Rhondda. |
 | | The Pontypridd court house is situated near the railway station, and is a handsome building of recent erection. |
 | | Britannia, Cymmer, Dinas, Eirw and Trebanog in the parish of Llantrisant, with Hafod, Hopkinstown, Gyfeillon, Porth, and Trehafod in the parish of Llanwonno, are villages distant from 2 to 5 miles from Pontypridd, situated in the Rhondda Valley (celebrated for its smokeless steam coal), and in the ecclesiastical district of St. David. |
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