A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MOUNTAIN-ASH, a colliers' village in the NE of Glamorgan; on the Aberdare branch of the Taff Vale railway, 4 miles SE of Aberdare. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office‡ under Aberdare, and a church in the decorated English style, of nave, S aisle, and apsidal chancel, built in 1863. A colliery here was opened, about 1838, on a mineral property of about 4,500 acres; has been sunk to the depth of 370 yards; includes a main seam of coals 4 feet thick; yields an output of more than 1,000 tons a day; and is worked through a shaft 18 feet in diameter inside the walling, and sectioned into four compartments,-two for drawing up the coal, one for sending up and down the workmen, and the fourth for drainage. The coal is smokeless; has been much in request for the working of steam-vessels; is used by many of the great mail-packet companies of England; and has been largely exported for the u se of the French government.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a colliers' village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Glamorgan AncC |
| Place: | Mountain Ash |
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