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• Total Population 1801 to 1971: Population grew from 284 in 1801 to 1,620 in 1971.
• Occupational Structure in 1881:

Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.

Alternative names

The following alternative names exist:

Name	Status	Language	Start	End	Authority
YSTRADGYNLAIS HIGHER	Preferred	English			M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 227.
UPPER YSTRADGUNLAIS	Alternate	English			1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'.
YSTRADGUNLAIS HIGHER	Alternate	English			1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'.
YSTRADGUNLAIS UPPER	Alternate	English			1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
BRECKNOCKSHIRE	Ancient County			M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 227.
NEATH RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District		01 Jul 1875	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PONTARDAWE RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District	01 Jul 1875		1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
PONTARDAWE RSD	Sanitary District			1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
PONTARDAWE	Registration sub-District			1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'.
YSTRADGUNLAIS	Registration sub-District			1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
YSTRADGYNLAIS	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
YSTRADGYNLAIS RD	Local Government District			M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 227.
YSTRADGYNLAIS CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 227.

Boundary changes

We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.

Lower level units

We know of no units which were contained within this unit.