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

Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League.

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.

The Welsh Football League's history stretches back to 1904 when the competition was first formed and Aberdare were crowned first champions of a seven-team First Division.

The Lamb FC, Glancynon FC, PT Civils and Hirwaun & Mackworth seconds play in the Heatwise Aberdare Valley Football League.

The White Rhino Hotel, Outspan Hotel, and the Aberdare Country Club at nearby Mweiga are relics of those colonial days.

His family soon moved to Aberdare, where his father had taken up the position of head professional at Aberdare Golf Club.

Rees began his career aged 16 as an assistant professional to his father at Aberdare Golf Club.

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

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

All bongos in captivity are from the isolated Aberdare Mountains of central Kenya.

Lamps are still made in Eccles, Aberdare, south Wales, and in Kolkata, India

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Lions from Tsavo in eastern Kenya are much closer genetically to lions in Transvaal ( South Africa ), than to those in the Aberdare Range in western Kenya.

ynon Valley consists of two towns which are Aberdare and Mountain Ash, Aberdare is the main town of the valley which had a population of around 31, 619 in 1991.

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

The occurrence of the surname in the surrounding area of Aberpergwm, such as Cwmgwrach, Bleangwrach, Rigos and Aberdare is very high as is the belief they are descended from Iestyn ap Gwrgan.

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.

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.

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

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.

They undertook a week's intensive coaching in Leeds to bring them up to speed, and after playing a number of touring matches the first true rugby league test was played, with the team going down 8-9 to Wales in Aberdare on 1 January 1908.

The Welsh rugby league team were contesting their first national fixture, and managed to beat the touring Kiwis 9-8 in Aberdare in front of 20, 000 spectators.

Wales participated in the first ever rugby league international when they beat New Zealand 9-8 in Aberdare in 1908.

The Aberdare team photographed in 1900

From 1974 to 1996 the Borough of Cynon Valley was one of thirty-seven districts of Wales, this borough was the Cynon Valley Borough Council ( Welsh: Cyngor Bwrdeistref Cwm Cynon ), this formed from the Aberdare and Mountain Ash urban districts, the parish of Rhigos from Neath Rural District and the parish of Penderyn from Brecknockshire.

Seven clubs formed the new top division and Aberdare were crowned as the inaugural champions, four points clear of Ebbw Vale following the round of 12 matches.

Jones lived in the village of Cwmaman, near Aberdare, where he became friends with neighbours, Stuart Cable and Richard Jones and they formed a covers band together.

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

An abbreviation of this work, which as a book of travel is even more delightful than its predecessors, was published in 1894, shortly after the author's death, with a brief introductory notice by Lord Aberdare.

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.

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.

' In 1881, D. A. Thomas rescued a boy who fell through the ice on Hirwaun Pond, Aberdare, an act for which he received an award from the Humane Society.

The town is situated about 150 km ( a two hour drive ) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare ( Nyandarua ) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya.

He worked on many canal projects, including the Neath and the Aberdare, in many of which he was also a shareholder.

Currently, the Treetops is run by the Aberdare Safari Hotels which acquired the two properties, Outspan and Treetops in 1978.

The Happy Valley set was a community of mainly British expatriates in Kenya, in the Wanjohi Valley close to the Aberdare Mountains, which had become notorious for its hedonistic lifestyle.

Nyahururu was founded as Thomson Falls after the 70 metre high Thomson's Falls on the nearby Ewaso Nyiro River, which drains from the Aberdare mountain ranges.

The line north to Aberdare on the Merthyr Line to was only kept open for coal train traffic to Tower Colliery, which moved its coal washery and loading facility onto the site of the former station goods yard.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

A statuette presented in gratitude to The Spectator, of an Aberdare miner, still sits in the editor ’ s office, bearing the inscription: " From the Townsfolk of Aberdare in Grateful Recognition: ' The Greatest of These is Love '".

The comprehensive school is situated on the site of the former estate of Lord Aberdare, the main house, Dyffryn House, was still used by the school until its demolition in the 1980s.