Glyncorrwg Llangynwyd Contents

Cymmer in the Parishes of Glyncorrwg and Llangynwyd

Church Records

For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives

The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, is in the Benefice of Glyncorrwg with Afan Vale and Cymmer Afan, and the diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS859961.

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

• Cymmer Afan Ecclesiastical Parish records         " .....  including registers of marriages, 1927-1981 baptisms, 1939-1988; banns, 1952-1988; confirmations, 1940-1972; services, 1941-1989"

PRO- Public Record Office, London

WGAS - West Glamorgan Archive Service

Description and Travel

Cymmer village - on Wikipedia

Occupations

• Dyffryn Rhondda Colliery, Cymmer on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Nantewlaeth Colliery (near Cymmer) on the Welsh Coal Mines site

Schools

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

• Cymmer school records         "School log books, 1884-1945."           " ..... opened as a board school in 1884. In about 1927 it changed its name to Cymmer Afan School. It became a secondary school in 1945."

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