(SOUTH WALES.] ABERDARE. 172 [POST OFFICE

under the level of the floor, is a baptistry : it has also a 1864 hy a ~ompany, at a cost of about £1,000: it has a tower, with a saddle-back roofJ and 1 steel bell : the Rev. reading-room and library, also a large room for meetings: David Davies is the curate. · the Mountain Ash Local Board of Health meet here every All Saints' clmrch, at Hirwain (a chapel o£ ease to the fortnight. parish church), i~ituated about 4 miles from Aberdare; it Petty sessions are held at the Police Station every Tues­ consists of chancel, nave, aisle, porch, and bell turret day; John Coke Fowler, esq., is the presiding stipendiary with 1 bell; the Rev. Samuel Row land J ones is the curate magistrate. in charge. The two principal hotels and posting houses are "The Cwmaman iron church (a chapel of ease to the parish Boot," and "The Black Lion." The inland revenue office is church) is situated about two miles from the town, and was held at the Black Lion Hotel. built in the year 1869: the Rev. Watkin Davies is the curate The market is held on Saturday, chiefly for the sale of in charge. provisions, in the New Market, erected in 1853, in the St. I<'agan's district church, •rrecynon, is a fine Gothic centre of the town, which is v~ry commodious. !<'airs stone building, consisting of nave, chancel, aisles, and has are held on April lst and 16th, and November 13th for 2 bells : in the chancel there is a very fine stained glass cattle. ~ · window: the church was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt, at There are two banking establlshments in the town : the expense of the late Lady Windsor, in the year 1856. Wilkins and Co. (branch of the Brecon Old Bank), and the The register dates from the year 1855. The living is a West of England and South Wales District Bank; also a vicarage, with residence, yearly value £300, in the gift of savings bank. the Bishop of Llandaff, and held by the Hev. Isaac Domere There are three newspapers published here, namely: "The J enkins, of Christ's College, Cambridge; the curate is the Aherdare Times," published every Saturday, price Id.; Rev. John Jones Rogers. office, 31, Commercial-place; J osiah Thomas Jones and St. Margaret's district church, at Mountain Ash, is a Son, proprietors: "The Y Gwladgarwr" (Welsh), pub­ Gothic stone building, consisting of nave, chancel, and aisle, lished every Saturday, price Id.; office, 14, Canon-street; also bell turret and I bell. The register dates from the year Waiter Lloyd, proprietor: and ''The Y Twr" (Welsh), 1862. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with published every fortnight (Fridays), price Id.; office, 31, residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held by Commercial-place; J osiah Thomas J ones and f;on, pro­ the Rev. David J ones-; of Jesus College, Oxford. prietors. At Aberaman a licensed room is used for divine service Aberdare Park, extending over 49 acres, was opened in every Sunday, and a new building is about bl'ing erected; 1869, having been given by the Charity CommissiOners to the Rev. Edward Jenkins, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, the churchwardens, and by them to the local board of is the curate in charge. health; it is laid out very tastefully. At Cwmbach divine service is held at the National school­ The principal residences are-Duffryn House, tl1e seat room every Sunday; the Rev. Henry Davies Is the curate of the Rig-ht Hon. Henry A us tin Bruce, M.r., ;r .P. i in charge. Abernant House, the seat of Richard Fothergill, esq., M.P., In Monk-street is a Roman Catholic chapel, with resi­ ;r.r.; Mardy House, the seat ofWilliam Thomas Lewis, esq.; dence for the officiating )lriest. Plas Newydd, the seat of Rees Hopkin Rhys, esq., ;J.P.; Ty The Aherdare Cemetery, situated in the Hirwain-Toad, Draw House, the seat of James Lewis, esq.; Sguborwen was opened in 1858, and extends over 30 acres_: there are House, the seat of Samuel Thomas, esq.; Lletty Shenkin two mortuary chapels. House, the seat of Daniel Rees, esq.; The Oaklands, the There are British schol>l.s for boys and girls; also National seat of Henry John Hollier, esq.; and Dany-Graig Housl', schools for children of both sexes. the seat of David Rosser, esq. There are chapels for Baptists, Calvinistic Methodists, The Marquis of Bute, who is lord of tl1e manor, Richard Independents, Primitive Methodists, Unitarians and Wes- Thomas Roberts, esq., Lady Gwyne Holford, J olm Bruce leyans. . Pryce, esq., The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the dcviseeR of The Town Hall, situated in Higl1-slreet, is a stone Build­ the late Baroness Windsor, Colonel Kemeys-Tynte, Hig-ht ing, and is used as the office of the local board of health. Hon. Henry Austin Bruce, M.P., ;J.P., Richard Fothergill, The Temperance Hall, in Canon-street, was opened in esq., M.P., LP., Griffith Davies, esq., and Rees Hopkin the year 1858. The county court sittings are held here ; Rhys, esq., ;r .P., are the principal landowners. there is also a reading-room and library, and a large room The soil is principally clay; subsoil, various. The cl1ief for mPeting·s and concerts. The county court is held monthly, crops are oats, potatoes, roots and pasturage. and the following are the places within its jurisdiction : The area of the parish of Aberdare is 16,858 acres. The Abernman, Aberdare, Abernant, Cap Coch, Cwmaman, popu1aiion of tbe parish in 1841, was 6,471; in 1851 it was Cwmbach, Cwmdare, Cwmpennar, Glyn Neath (eastern side 14,998; in 1861 it was 32,299; present estimated popula­ of river), Hirwain, Llwydcoed, Mountain Ash, Penywain, tion, 40,000; the gross estimated rental of the parish is Pontwalby, and Trecynon. £208,351; rateable value, £166,746. The Workman's Hall, at Mountain Ash, was erected in Parish Clerk, Thomas ~vans.~

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