Cadoxton Juxta Neath Contents Nearby Places

Crynant in the Parish of Cadoxton Juxta Neath

Archives and Libraries

Crynant Library

Business and Commerce Records

• Crynant Colliery Co Ltd
  1900-1945: corporate records
  [Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff - Reference: D/D PD]

Church History

Church Records

An ancient chapelry of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath with earlier Baptisms, Marriages & Burials entered in the registers of the mother church

The parish church is dedicated to St. Margaret, is in the Benefice of Crynant, and diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be found at grid reference SN794048.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Crynant Ecclesiastical Parish records     "Crynant is a modern parish within the rural deanery of Upper Groneath in the diocese of Llandaff. It was created from the village of Crynant that formerly laid within the parish of Dylais Higher. St. Margaret's Church was constructed c1910 as a chapel of ease to St. Mary's church, Seven Sisters."
  " ......... records including registers of marriages, 1838-1942; burials, 1879-1938; services, 1916-1927; preachers books, 1905-1916; churchwardens accounts, 1913-1936; parochial church council, 1919-1930; photographs, 1909-1910"

Description and Travel

Crynant - on Wikipedia

History

Cwm Dulais Historical Society  -  "Its main catchment area comprises the villages of Coelbren, Banwen, Dyffryn Cellwen, Pantyffordd, Seven Sisters, and Crynant. It also includes Cilfrew and Aberdulais"

Land and Property

• Creunant estate 1722-1970: deeds and rentals
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D Xge]

Occupations

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

View of the surviving buildings at Cefn Coed Colliery - on the Gathering the Jewels site

• Cefn Coed Colliery, Crynant on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Blaenant Drift Colliery, Crynant on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Treforgan Colliery (near Crynant)  on the Welsh Coal Mines site

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Colliery Cost book for Torcefn, Brynteg, Crynant, Seven Sisters, Rhyding, Gellia.     6th June 1883-17th April 1886
• David Henry Rees (Glanamman)       "David Henry Rees or 'D.H.' as he was often known was born in 1895. ............ During the 1920s and 1930s he was politically active and in 1936 he was imprisoned in Swansea Gaol following disturbances in Crynant when the Anthracite Combine used blackleg labour to defeat the strike............."

Schools

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Crynant National School Records   " ............ comprising log books, 1869-1983; HMI reports, 1871-1881; Board of Education circulars, 1909-1920"

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