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Ystalyfera, is a populous village in the parish of Llanguick, distant 12 miles from Swansea. The Church of the Holy Trinity is a chapel of ease to the parish church and is unconsecrated. The Rev. Thomas Thomas is English curate and the Rev. - Williams is Welsh curate. There are very large and well attended National schools connected with the iron and tin plate works and a British school, besides, also, chapels for Baptists, Independents, Weslyans and Calvinistic Methodists. The newly erected English Congregational chapel is in the Gothic style, and is capable of seating 450 persons: it is one of the greatest architectural features in the neighbourhood. The Ystalyfera Iron and Tin Plate Company's works consist of 11 blast furnaces, 7 of which are in blast, with puddling furnaces for converting pig iron into every description of merchant iron, including boiler plates, terne or black plates, tin plates and cut nails, giving employment, with its connected collieries, to about 4,000 hands. The managing partner is J. Palmer Budd, esq., D. L. At Ynismudw are situated the extensive fire brick and drain pipe works of Messrs. Lewis and Morgan. Ynis-y-daren, the seat of J. Palmer Budd, esq., D. L. is plesantly situated in the valley of Swansea, commanding views both up and down the valley, with the hills of Breconshire. The Varteg mountain is in close proximity and here presents a grand appearance. Daren-gwynddon, or the Rock of Signs, or Weather Rock, and Daren-y-Castell, and the Fairy Rocks, with the Weeping Well, are immediately opposite the front. The Cribath may be distinctly seen from here, which is one limit of the limestone rock, the other being at the Mumbles, near Swansea; this forms the coal basin, lime being underneath all the way. Glan-Twrch, the seat of W. Price, esq., J. P., M.D., is a very pretty residence, between the rivers Twrch and Tawe, with extensive grounds and romantic walks, one of which is half-a-mile in extent, alongside the stream running through these grounds, which divides the counties of Brecon and Glamorgan : from these grounds may be obtained beautiful views of the valley, the hills of Breconshire, with some magnificent woodland scenery; the great feature of interest, being the Varteg mountain, immediately opposite the house. Tyr-waun, the residence of David Thomas, esq. M. D., is situated on a hill, from whence delightful views of the valley and some parts of Breconshire, with it's hills; the Varteg may also be seen. Many other residences in this neighbourhood, including Yniscedwyn House, the seat of R. D. Gough, esq., J. P. , are of the same character. There is also a celebrated well, containing a mineral spring, called the Cwm Twrch Well. The chief landowners in this village are R. D. Gough, esq., J. P. , J. Palmer Budd, esq., J. P., and W. Price, esq. , J. P. The population here was in 1861, 5,220.

Post & Money Order Office , & Post Office Savings Bank & Telegraph Office. - John Reynolds, postmaster.
Letters arrive from Swansea at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched thereto at 4.40 p.m.

Schools :-

Public Officers :-

Swansea Vale Railway Station, Joseph Barrett, station master

Places of Worship

Chapels
Cashalam (Welsh Baptist), Ystalyfera, Rev. John Evans, minister
Zoar (English Baptist), Ystalyfera, Rev. Chas. Williams, minister
Ystalyfera (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist), Rev. - Phillips, minister
Gurnos (Welsh Independent), Ystalyfera, Rev. Benj. Thomas, minister
(English Independent), ystalyfera, Rev. Joseph Johns, minister
(Welsh Independent), Ystalyfera, ministers various
Panteg (Welsh Independent), Ystalyfera, ministers various
Zion (Weslyan), Ystalyfera, Rev. Henry Pritchard

Private Residents

Commercial

Slaters Commercial Directory Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, 1871

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