Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PONT-Y-RHUN, or Pentrebach

PONT-Y-RHUN, or Pentrebach, a chapelry in Merthyr-Tydvil parish, Glamorgan; suburban to Merthyr-Tydvil. It was constituted in 1860. Post-town, Merthyr-Tydvil. Pop., 5, 288. Houses, 1,022. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £65. Patron, A. Hill, Esq.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC
Place names: PENTREBACH     |     PONT Y RHUN     |     PONT Y RHUN OR PENTREBACH
Place: Pentrebach

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