Aberfan in the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil

References to the village of Aberfan at

• The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Various items  - on People's Collection Wales

• Capel Aberfan 
• Bethania Chapel, Aberfan

Aberfan on Alan George's site

Various landscapes  - on People's Collection Wales

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Aberfan in the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Aberfan in the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Aberfan 1966 - part of the Coalfield Web Materials site

Aberfan War Memorial - on the Roll of Honour site

The Aberfan Disaster  on Wikipedia

Aberfan - on BBC Wales   'On this Day'     
"21 October 1966: Aberfan - a generation wiped out;It took just five minutes for the coal tip above Aberfan to slide down the mountain and engulf a farm, several houses and a school"

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

• Aberfan Disaster Inquiry, Chief Surveyor's papers 1950-1967
• Aberfan Photographs collection comprising of a volume of 99 photographs depicting engineering work on the remainder of the coal tips

Multiple items re the Aberfan Disaster  - on People's Collection Wales

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SO070001 (Lat/Lon: 51.691921, -3.346859), Aberfan in the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil 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.

Bryntaf Girls Band, 1934 - There was a tradition of jazz bands in Aberfan and Merthyr Vale and the most famous band of all was the Aberfan Coons Band.  - on People's Collection Wales

• Aberfan Disaster Fund, Aberfan, Glamorgan
  • 1966-80: papers
    [National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records]
  • 1967-1973: disaster fund management committee and sub-committee minutes
    [Glamorgan Record Office - Reference : Acc 1996/60]
• Public Inquiry into the Aberfan Tip Disaster
  1966-69: proceedings, correspondents, tribunal proceedings etc
  [National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records - Reference: Aberfan]