Glyntaff
village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK
Glyntaff (Welsh: Glyn-taf) is a small village to the south-east of Pontypridd, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales situated in the Treforest ward along with the village of Trefforest.
Education
Glyntaff is the location of the University of South Wales, formerly University of Glamorgan, Polytechnic of Wales' Glyntaff Campus, which houses the Department for Health, Sport and Social Science (HESAS); including Glamorgan's Police Science Centre and Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design Technology.
Places of worship
The parish church of St Mary's is on Glyntaff Road in the village.
Other information
Also Glyntaff Crematorium (pictured), the first such facility in Wales when opened in 1924, is located in this village. It is run by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council.
Glyntaff was served between 1904 and 1932 by Glyntaff Halt railway station on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway.
The public source identifies “Glyntaff” as village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Glyntaff, village and Rhondda.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5573005. Authority coordinates are 51.596, -3.323. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924, 1904 and 1932.
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This entry incorporates text from “Glyntaff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.