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The view from the head of the Rhondda Valley, Glamorgan

Rhondda Valley The Rhondda Valley in Glamorgan is the valley of the River Rhondda cutting through the county's heart. It is a heavily urbanised valley, a former coal mining valley with about 60,000 inhabitants in its towns and villages, all pressed along the deep course of the valley. The Rhondda is most notable for its historical link to the coal mining industry which was at its peak between 1840-1925. Its has been marked by a strong nonconformist tradition manifested in baptist chapels and firm morality the 19th and early 20th centuries, and social ties expressed in the form of male voice choirs, sport and radical politics. (Read more)