Trehafod: Difference between revisions

| country = = Wales

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| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Rhondda (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|Rhondda]] and [[Pontypridd (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|Pontypridd]]

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| official_name= = Trehafod

| static_image_name = Trehafod Road, Trehafod - geograph.org.uk - 413554.jpg

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| coordinates = {{coord|51.6096|-3.3811|display=inline,title}}

| unitary_wales= = [[Rhondda Cynon Taf]]

| lieutenancy_wales= = [[Mid Glamorgan]]

| constituency_westminster= = [[Rhondda (UK Parliament constituency)|Rhondda]] and [[Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontypridd]]

| post_town= = PONTYPRIDD

| postcode_district = = CF37

| postcode_area= = CF

| dial_code= = 01443

| os_grid_reference= = ST044909

| population = 498698

| population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129830&c=CF37+2NG&d=16&e=62&g=6494746&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1447602717406&enc=1|title=Community population 2011|accessdateaccess-date=15 November 2015}}</ref>

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'''Trehafod''' is a village and [[community (Wales)|community]] in the [[Rhondda]] Valley, between [[Porth]] and [[Pontypridd]] in the [[county borough]] of [[Rhondda Cynon Taf]], Wales, with a population of 698 in the 2011 census.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W04000705|title=Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics}}</ref>(The earlier name ''Hafod'' <ref name="Hafod">{{cite news |url= https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3828636/3828641 |title= Rhondda Place-Name Alteration. |newspaper=Rhondda Leader |quote= Owing to the inconvenience caused in the postal arrangements by the duplication of the name Hafod, a letter was addressed by the clerk of the Pontypridd Council to the Postmaster-General asking that the district under the Council's area should be known as Trehafod. At a meeting of the Council on Tuesday afternoon, the Postmaster intimated that the change would take place on and after January 1st, 1905. |date=12 November 1904 |accessdate=11 September 2008 | }}</ref> was altered in 1905 to avoid confusion with [[Hafod]] near Swansea.) Until then, Trehafod (first record of the name is found in 1851) had been part of Hafod). <ref name="Trehafod">{{ |url= https://www.facebook.com/groups/263839124470/search/?q=HAFOD%20%2F%20TREHAFOD |title= HAFOD / TREHAFOD. |quote= Trehafod was built on land of Hafod-uchaf alias Hafod-fawr. The settlement of Trehafod is recorded in 1851, 1870 and 1885. |date=12 November 1904 |accessdate=5 October 2020 | </ref>

Administratively, Trehafod is split between the electoral division of Cymmer (Rhondda) to the west and Rhondda (Pontypridd) to the east. A former coalmining community, the village is now the site of the [[Rhondda Heritage Park]], a tourist attraction commemorating the Rhondda valleyValley's coalmining industryculture and local history.

Spelling variants found in the past are Trehavod (an English spelling, using "v" instead of "f") and Trefhafod (a hypercorrect Welsh form, using the conservative literary form "tref" instead of the colloquial, and more modern literary form, "tre").

The 1847 [[tithe maps|tithe map]] of the area shows a number of farms on the area that was to become Trehafod,; these were named, Hafod Uchaf, Hafod Ganol, and Hafod Fawr. It was from these farms that Trehafod was to take its name.

"Hafod" is a Welsh word literally meaning literally "summer dwelling", and refers to an upland farm (from the practice of taking cattle up the hillside from the valley floor to graze in the summer months) (haf = summer, bod = dwelling, with soft mutation of [b] to [v] of the second element (bod) after a noun used as an adjective equivalent in attributive position (haf)).

Tre (literally “town”) was used in the eighteenth centuryeighteen-hundreds in industrial areas for a street or streets of workers’ housing (equivalent to English “town” or “ville”, similarlywhich are used similarly).

Trehafod is now most famous for the Rhondda Heritage Park, whichformerly wasknown onceas the Lewis Merthyr collieryColliery, which at the peak time for [[coal mining]] production, was one of the most productive collieries in the [[South Wales Coalfield]].

The village has frequently suffered flooding from the river, the most serious of which in 1960 claimed the life of an Afon streetStreet resident in 1960.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} (''Afon'' is Welsh for 'river'.) Flooding also occurred in 1921, 1929, and 1979, after which the Rhondda River bank was reinforced. "The 1979 flood overtopped the banks of the River Rhondda just down riverdownriver from Trehafod, and floodwaters entered the low-lying areas of Colliery Street and Great Street causing, flooding to many properties. A major river improvement scheme was completed in 1985, andbut nothe problemsvillage havehas occurredstill suffered significant flooding since, including in February then2020.<ref>[http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:3337/OBJ/20001882.pdf Taff Catchment Management Plan Consultation Report], April 1995. National Rivers Authority, Welsh Region</ref>