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| | GENUKI: Slaters Commercial Directory, Whitchurch, Glamorgan, 1880 |
 | | WHITCHURCH is a parish and pleasant village in the hundred of Caerphilly, county of Glamorgan, situated in the beautiful vale of the Taff, and intersected by the high road from Cardiff to Merthyr. |
 | | TONGWYNLAIS is a considerable village, mostly in the above parish, and partly in that of Eglwysilan, about 5 miles from Cardiff, and half-a-mile from the railway station at Walnut Tree Bridge. |
 | | Castell Coch, or the Red Castle, is seated on a considerable eminence, near the village, embosomed in trees, and commanding a fine view of the Taff vale and the Bristol channel. |
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