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Gilfach Goch Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gilfach Goch

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Gilfach Goch history

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Gilfach Goch developed as coal mining village during the industrialisation of the south Wales valleys in the 19th century. Three pits were sunk in the area, the Brittanic, the Dinas Main and the Trane and Llewellyn. In the 2001 census, of all rural areas with a population over 1,500, the largest percentage of people in the whole of England and Wales who stated that they had no religion.

Gilfach Goch etymology

The translation of Gilfach Goch into English is easily understood (cil = nook or secluded area, bach = small) Several theories have been put forward as to where the name came from. Thomas Morgan, a local historian, theorised that the area was the location of an ancient site of importance to the local druids. Owen Morgan concludes that coch refers to the blood shed by the defeated Roman soldiers.

You can visit Gilfach Goch places with Walkfo Gilfach Goch to hear history at Gilfach Goch’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gilfach Goch has 16 places to visit in our interactive Gilfach Goch 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 Gilfach Goch, 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 Gilfach Goch places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gilfach Goch & the surrounding areas.

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16 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Gilfach Goch places to visit

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

Cambrian Colliery Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967. It is notable for its huge production and for two infamous explosion disasters, in 1905 and 1965, in which a total of 64 miners were killed.

Cambrian & Clydach Vale B.&G.C. Cambrian & Clydach Vale Boys & Girls Club is a Welsh football club. The club was founded in 1965 as Cambrian United and joined the Welsh Football League in 2005. The side finished in promotion positions in Divisions Three and Two in successive seasons.

Gilfach Goch Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village in the Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It is situated in the Cwm Ogwr Fach (Small Ogmore Valley) near the larger community of Tonyrefail.

Mynydd Maendy Mynydd Maendy (translation: Maindy Mountain) is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales, to the southwest of Tonyrefail. The name derives from the Welsh maen dy meaning “stone house”

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