CWMDARE (CWM-DAR), a hamlet, in the parish and newly-created borough of ABERDARE, hundred of MISKIN, county of GLAMORGAN,
SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (w. S. W.) from Merthyr-Tydvil. The population is returned with the parish. The parochial church, and
great part of the village, or town, of Aberdare are situated in this hamlet, which occupies the left bank of the river
Cynon, near its source. In the event of Aberdare receiving a charter of incorporation, Cwmdare will be abstracted from the
hundred, and necessarily placed within the jurisdiction of the borough. Besides a dreary extent of bare mountain land, it
contains very little which is not connected with the town or ironworks in the vicinity: towards the north-west there is a
large tract of waste land, at the extremity of which, on the north-western point of the parish, are the Hirwaun iron -
works, and the houses connected with them: the works are situated in another parish, but nearly all the houses are within
the limits of this. Here are four almshouses, open to the poor of the whole parish, and endowed with a rent-charge of £5
by Mrs. Elinor Matthews, in 1724.