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Tondu Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tondu

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Tondu history

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Sir Robert Price

Sir Robert Price began to develop an ironworks alongside the Dyffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway in the late 1830s. The year 1843 was significant for the Tondu district as extensive reserves of black-band ironstone were discovered six miles (10 km) to the north in the Maesteg area.

Brogdens

In February 1854 John Brogden sent his fourth son James, aged 22, to revive and run the business. In 1856 the Brogdens re-opened Price’s coal and ore mine at Tywith. In the 1861 census he said he was employing 900 men and farming 1,100 acres with 20 men.

Brogdens give way to North’s Navigation

In 1872 Alexander Brogden formed a new joint-stock company, the Llynvi, Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company Limited. It merged Brogdens’ Glamorgan business interests with those of the other company. However the new company was short-lived and was wound up by creditors in 1878.

Disastrous explosion

112 men and boys died in explosion at Parc Slip Colliery in August 1892. Just 39 survivors survived; some remained trapped underground for a week. Sixty women were widowed and 153 children left fatherless.

New manager

Boyd-Harvey was a Cornishman who had studied gas production in Swansea. He had followed his elder brother Robert to South America. He retired in 1913, at the early age of 52.

Tondu House

The General Managers lived in Tondu House until 1940 when the house was commandeered by the Ministry of Supply for the Pyrotechnic Research Department. The site was chosen because it was in an elevated and relatively isolated position, some distance from a built-up area and only four miles from ROF Bridgend.

The Old Pit Pony Hospital

On site is an old pit pony hospital where all the local pit ponies came for treatment and rest during their lives in the local pits. It was the only pit pony. hospital in Mid Glamorgan.

You can visit Tondu places with Walkfo Tondu to hear history at Tondu’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tondu has 35 places to visit in our interactive Tondu map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Tondu, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Tondu places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tondu & the surrounding areas.

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35 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Tondu tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Tondu

  

Best Tondu places to visit

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Tondu has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Tondu’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Tondu’s information audio spots:

Princess of Wales Hospital Princess of Wales Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Tywysoges Cymru) is a district general hospital in Bridgend, Wales. It is managed by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

HM Prison Parc HM Prison Parc is a Category B men’s private prison and Young Offenders Institution in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Parc Prison is operated by G4S and is the only privately operated prison in Wales.

Parc Hospital Parc Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Parc) was a mental health facility at Bridgend in Wales. It was located at the centre of a mental hospital in Wales.

Bryngarw Country Park Bryngarw Country Park is made up of 48 hectares (120 acres) and is situated on the west bank of the Afon Garw, at the mouth of the Garw Valley in the Bridgend County Borough, Wales. The rest of the park is predominantly wooded with areas of meadow, wetland and freshwater, formal garden and areas for amenity use.

River Garw River Garw (Afon Garw in Welsh, meaning “rugged river”) runs for about 12 miles from its source in the hills north of Blaengarw to the confluence with the River Ogmore and the River Llynfi at Aberkenfig. It is one of three main tributaries of the river which runs through the town of Bridgend.

Tondu Tondu (English: Black Meadow) is a village in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. It was established in the late 18th century as a coal mining village servicing the Parc Slip Colliery. In later years, an iron works was also established, and a brick works was constructed in the 19th century.

Llynfi power station Llynfi power station supplied electricity to the Bridgend area of Glamorgan South Wales from 1943 to 1977. The coal-fired station was originally built and operated by the South Wales Power Company Limited to supply electricity to munitions factories during the Second World War. It was completed by the post-nationalisation British Electricity Authority in 1951.

Penybont F.C. Penybont Football Club was formed in 2013 following the merger of Bridgend Town and Bryntirion Athletic. The Welsh club play in the Cymru Premier.

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