Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mountain Ash

Mountain Ash, mining town with ry. sta., Aberdare and Llanwonno pars., Glamorgan, 3½ miles SE. of Aberdare, and partly in parliamentary limits of Merthyr-Tydfil, 9870 ac., pop. 10,295; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; in vicinity are extensive collieries.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "mining town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC
Place: Mountain Ash

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