Llanfabon, Glamorgan

Description
Llanfabon, a parish in Glamorgan, on the rivers Taff and Rhymney, near the Merthyr Tydfil Canal and the boundary with Monmouthshire, 2 miles SW of Llancaiach station on the G.W. and Rhymney Joint railway, and 5 miles NNE of Pontypridd. It contains the village of Nelson, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Treharris (R.S.O.) Acreage, 5400; population of the civil parish, 3037; of the ecclesiastical, 2753. The surface is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £128 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St Mabon, and was rebuilt in 1848. There are chapels of ease at St Cynon and Nelson. Ystrad Mynach, which is partly in this parish, was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1890. There are Baptist, Congregational, Calvinistic Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.