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Treforest in the Parish of Llantwit Fardre
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"TREFOREST, a hamlet in Llantwit-Vairdre parish, Glamorgan; on the Taff Vale railway, 11¾ miles NNW of Cardiff. It has a post-office under Pontypridd, and a r. station; and extensive tin-plate works are adjacent. Pop., 921." [From John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) on Vision of Britain]
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Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Metal Alloys (South Wales) Ltd records 1939-1970 "The Treforest Industrial Estate was granted Special Area status in the 1930s as part of the government's response to high levels of unemployment in the south Wales coalfield. In the late 1930s, a large number of Jewish entrepreneurs and tradesmen fleeing persecution in Germany and Central Europe re-located to Treforest. One such firm was Metal Alloys (South Wales) Ltd, founded by two Czech Jews, Dr Roth and E. Lux,............................."
The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-
- Saron Presbyterian Methodist Chapel
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Salvation Army hall Treforest
- Jewish synagogue in Treforest c. 1990
Trefforest - on Wikipedia
Treforest ( and Trading Estate) - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site
Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site
Transcript of name listing for Pontypridd, and district, from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-
| 1880 | (Slaters Directory) |
The transcription of the section for Treforest from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Treforest in the Parish of Llantwit Fardre to another place.
1961 Floods at Treforest - on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST085891 (Lat/Lon: 51.593291, -3.322284), Treforest in the Parish of Llantwit Fardre which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Salvation Army Band, Treforest, 1914 - on the People's Collection Wales site