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population in the area was mainly linked to the expansion of the mining and ironworks industry in the locality. Many were refugees from Russia, Poland and
Romania, fleeing religious persecution. The cost of the land for the cemetery was mainly paid for by the local community, but contributions were also made by Jewish communities and individuals across Britain, the largest amount being £10 from the politician and philanthropist, Baron
377:) Retrieved 10 June 2022. In 1747, those Arminians who lived on the Merthyr side of the mountain broke away and set up their own chapel (Hen Dŷ Cwrdd) at Coedycymer – in the wood at the confluence of the two streams of the Tâf... Coedycymer was a dense woodland... When Anthony Bacon built his first furnace at Cyfarthfa in 1765 this wood was stripped of its trees in order to provide fuel to smelt the iron.
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It consists of 15 arches, each one 39 feet 6 inches wide, and is 770 ft. long with a maximum height of 115 ft. It was planned to be constructed entirely of limestone like the nearby
Pontsarn Viaduct but a trade union strike by stonemasons in February 1866 caused the company to buy 800,000
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The standard Welsh spelling for the village is
Cefncoedycymer, though road signs show Cefn Coed y Cymer. The latter is in fact the non-habitative name (such names, referring to geographic features, are spelt in Welsh with the elements separated) and is the name of the hill after which the village is
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The short form of the village name in Welsh is Y Cefn, hence Pont y Cefn (“the Cefn bridge”), an old bridge by the modern river bridge carrying the A4054 Brecon Road over the Taf Fechan. In
English the short form locally is Cefn (“Her brother lives in Cefn”) and to be more specific about which Cefn
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and John Ward. In early 1866, the project faced disaster when Savin and Ward suffered serious financial and legal difficulties. It was eventually completed with the assistance of
Alexander Sutherland. He produced an alternative route into Merthyr, curving the viaduct, so that the railway line
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Merthyr to Brecon road, lies another site of historical interest. Within the Cefn-coed
Cemetery is the Jewish burial ground, one of the largest in Wales outside Cardiff. It was established and consecrated in the 1860s by the then thriving Merthyr Hebrew Congregation. The growth of the Jewish
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As the village is on the northern boundary of the
Gwentian dialect area of the Welsh language (i.e. the south-east of Wales), local pronunciations have shown typical Gwentian features, with “cefan” for “cefn” , “co'd” for “coed” , and “cymar” for “cymer” , though with the disappearance of
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is in fact a poor Welsh spelling used as an
English form of the name (there is no doubling of "m" in standard Welsh spelling, and the hyphens are unnecessary). This form can be seen, for example, on the Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile map 1888-1913.
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The meaning is “the hill (cefn) of / by / at Coed y Cymer”, where “Coed y Cymer” is “the wood (coed) at the confluence (y cymer)”, where the Taf Fechan river joins the Taf Fawr river to form Afon Taf (the river Taff).
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In place names in Welsh, the definite article might be omitted (though understood to be present) and so “Cefncoedcymer” is also found – an internet search will show such instances of this spelling.
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and the impressive curving Cefn Coed
Viaduct. The viaduct, which spans the Taf Fawr river, came into being as part of the Merthyr- Pontsticill junction line. This additional line extended the
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517:'The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette' and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon, Carmarthen, Radnor, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Cardigan, Montgomery, Hereford. 3 November 1866. (
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and was only agreed following a special Act of
Parliament in July 1862 to allow its construction. The Cefn Coed Cemetery with its Jewish burial ground is listed on the
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is being referred to (there are many villages with the short form “Cefn”), Cefn-coed / Cefn Coed is used (“she attended Hen Dŷ Cwrdd Chapel in Cefn Coed”).
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bricks and use bricklayers to complete the 15 arches. It was completed on 29 October 1866, three years after the main line which linked it with
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area and responsibility for maintenance of the cemetery has been transferred to the Local Authority. The cemetery is listed at Grade II on the
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Coed y Cymer was a dense woodland here that was felled in 1765 to provide wood for Anthony Bacon’s blast furnace at his Cyfarthfa ironworks.
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on the southern slopes of which is Merthyr Tydfil Golf Club. The village is bounded both to the north and the west by the
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traditional spoken Welsh in the area they are probably not often heard nowadays, if at all.
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with assistance from a grant from the National Lottery. It has now become part of the
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