Pontypridd
Sign in to savePontypridd ( , ), colloquially referred to as Ponty, is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately north west of Cardiff city centre.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Pontypridd,South Wales Central Electoral Region
- UK place.official_name
- Pontypridd
- UK place.population
- 31,206
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.community_wales
- Pontypridd Town
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Mid Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Pontypridd
- UK place.post_town
- PONTYPRIDD
- UK place.postcode_district
- CF37
- UK place.postcode_area
- CF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01443
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST075895
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Pontypridd
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 31206
- Body of water
- River Taff
- Official website
- www.pontypriddtowncouncil.org.uk
- Image
- Pontypridd 2001.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01443
Show 10 more facts
- postal code
- CF37
- OS grid reference
- ST075895
- Commons category
- Pontypridd
- topic's main category
- Category:Pontypridd
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Pontypridd
- category for people born here
- Q20741339
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P8168
- 2007 VK184
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- P12749
- digambara
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Etymology
- Old Bridge
- Coal
- Iron and steel
- Buildings
- Government
- Pontypridd community
- Transport links
- Railway
- Trams, trolleybuses, and buses
- Education
- Entertainment and social history
- Sport and recreation
- Media
- Culture
- In popular culture
- Twinning
- Notable people
- Sports people
- Bibliography
- See also
- References
- External links
Pontypridd ( , ), colloquially referred to as Ponty, is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately north west of Cardiff city centre.
==Geography== Pontypridd comprises the electoral wards of Cilfynydd, Glyncoch, Graig, Hawthorn, Pontypridd Town, 'Rhondda', Rhydyfelin Central/Ilan, Trallwng (Trallwn) and Treforest. The town mainly falls within the Senedd and UK parliamentary constituency by the same name, although the Cilfynydd and Glyncoch wards fall within the Cynon Valley Senedd constituency and the Cynon Valley UK parliamentary constituency. This change was effective for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, and for the 2010 UK General Election.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontypridd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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