Aberdare Athletic F. C.

They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.

The reserve team carried on as Aberaman and Aberdare Athletic for one more season but are now known as just Aberaman Athletic F. C.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Aberdare Athletic Football Club were a Welsh football club founded in 1893 and based in Aberdare.

Inspired by Stanley Cowie, the title was clinched in early May, and yet hopes of Barry being able to play in the Football League were scuppered just a month later, when their application failed and Charlton Athletic and Aberdare Athletic were elected instead.

Two new clubs are elected to this division: Aberdare Athletic ( 1921 – 1927 ) and Charlton Athletic.

The exceptions to this were Crystal Palace, who were promoted to the Second Division, Grimsby Town who transferred to the Third Division North and Aberdare Athletic and Charlton Athletic who joined for the first time.

By 1928 after three years in the wilderness football enthusiasts in the town including the groundsman / caretaker of Stebonheath Park Jack Goldsborough who had joined the club in 1922 as a player / trainer resolved the resurrect the club once more and fate decreed that they were able to succeed when they took over the fixtures of Aberdare Athletic in the Welsh League, another club by this time who were in dire straits and themselves had had to resign from the Welsh League for the same reason as Llanelli.

Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea.

On May 11, 1919, an extensive fire broke out on Cardiff Street, Aberdare.

Lady Aberdare, born 1827, died in April 1897 and was a proponent of women's education and active in the establishment of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff.

The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), which had been founded in 1872 and University College North Wales ( now Bangor University ) and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire ( now Cardiff University ) which were founded following the Aberdare Report in 1881.

The area is served by Cathays railway station in the east of the area with frequent services south to Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Central or north to Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil or Treherbert via Pontypridd.

Llandaf railway station is in reasonable distance of western parts of Gabalfa, with services northbound to either Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil or Aberdare via Pontypridd or southbound to Cardiff Central via Cathays and Cardiff Queen Street.

During the daytime from Monday to Saturday, there are usually six trains an hour from Cardiff Central to destinations including Aberdare, Pontypridd, Treherbert and Merthyr Tydfil.

Platform 1 is used for services to Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil, Treherbert, Rhymney and Bargoed as well as Coryton in the east of Cardiff.

One was on the line from Cardiff to Aberdare, namely Abercynon North The other, Abercynon South, was on the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil line.

The Merthyr Line is a commuter railway line in South Wales from central Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare.

The line is also used as a diversionary route for trains to Merthyr, Aberdare and Treherbet when the line between Cardiff Queen Street and Radyr is closed for engineering work.

From Monday to Saturday, up to three trains per hour leave for Cardiff Central ; their final destination being Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil or Pontypridd.

On Sundays there are either 2 or 3 trains per hour to Cardiff Central ( one each hour continuing to either Merthyr or Aberdare ), half hourly trains to Barry Island and one every two hours to Bridgend.

It lies on the B4275 Cardiff Road-the old main route to Cardiff before the A4059 road was built-between Aberdare and Mountain Ash.

Services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales northbound to Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil via Pontypridd and southbound to Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Central.

There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.

From 1847 to 1854 Bruce was stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, resigning the position in the latter year, when he entered parliament as Liberal member for Merthyr Tydfil.

The first Labour MP, Keir Hardie, was elected as junior member for the Welsh constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in 1900.

In 1900, Hardie, representing Labour, was elected as the junior MP for the dual-member constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, which he would represent for the remainder of his life.

Heading north to Abercynon, the road now follows the route of the Taff Vale Railways Llancaiach Branch to Quakers Yard roundabout, where it is joined by the A4059 from Abercynon, Aberdare and Hirwaun ; the A472 from Ystrad Mynach and Pontypool finally the A4054 from Quakers Yard, and Merthyr Tydfil.

Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and raised in Penywaun near Aberdare in the Cynon Valley, he is a former pupil of Mountain Ash Grammar School.

Statue of William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, at Aberdare Park

The town is served by Mountain Ash railway station on the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line of the Arriva Trains Wales rail network.

Officially representing the mid-Glamorgan area, including Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare, Pontypridd, Caerphilly, Maesteg and Bridgend, and south Powys, the Celtic Warriors was in practice a combination of the Pontypridd RFC and Bridgend RFC Welsh Premier League Clubs.

The latter service can continue to either Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd and / or Aberdare.

The village developed as a transport interchange being at the junction of the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Glamorganshire Canal and the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Taff Vale Railway.

** Merthyr Line to Pontypridd and Abercynon continuing to either Aberdare or Merthyr Tydfil, plus the freight-only section beyond Aberdare to Hirwaun

Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

In 1873 Bruce relinquished the home secretaryship, at Gladstone's request, to become Lord President of the Council, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, on 23 August that year.

He was one of six south Wales Labour MPs who opposed their own Government's plans, along with Leo Abse ( Pontypool ), Donald Anderson ( Swansea East ), Ioan Rees ( Aberdare ), Fred Evans ( Caerphilly ), and Ifor Davies ( Gower ).

The Bongo Surveillance Programme, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recorded photos of bongos at remote salt licks in the Aberdare Forests using camera traps, and, by analyzing DNA extracted from dung, have confirmed the presence of bongo in Mount Kenya, Eburru and Mau forests.

Alun Lewis ( 1915 – 44 ), from Cwmaman near Aberdare, published both poetry and short fiction and might well have been a major figure in the decades after the war but for his early death.

Aberdare Safari Hotels have embarked on an initiative dubbed “ Return the Bush ” in conjunction with the Kenya Wildlife Service.

While African natives have been familiar with the animal and Europeans have been reported seeing spotted lions since roughly 1904, the first documentable encounter by a European was in 1931 when Kenyan farmer Michael Trent shot and killed two individuals in the Aberdare Mountains region at an elevation of.

No reports of the marozi have surfaced from the Aberdare region since the 1930s and it is believed that the population has long since become extinct.

Since its termination at Aberdare following the Beeching Axe, there have been various proposals to extend the line northwards towards Hirwaun again.