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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Glamorganshire => Topic started by: daveo on Saturday 15 October 05 19:42 BST (UK)
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hi,
I have a birthcertificate for a Taliesen Jones 1874 born at Mafan Mill llanfabon, does anyone know where this is/was
regards daveo
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Check out by googling for Genuki: Llanfabon. it will give you the info you need.
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DONT KNOW WHERE THE MILL IS ITSELF .
LLANFABON IS THE MOUNTAINSIDE BETWEEN CILFYNYDD , PONTYPRIDD AND NELSON.
TRY THIS SITE OF OLD MAPS WHICH MAY BE OF INTEREST.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/index_external.jsp?easting=307500&northing=189500
THE GRAVEYARD IS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD BETWEEN ABERCYNON A470 ROUNDABOUT AND THE PLACE CALLED FIDDLERS ELBOW IN ABERCYNON.
HOPE THIS HELPS YOU.
DAVE BOYCE
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thanks for the response,
i have tried old mapsand there was a mill just down the road from the greyhound pub called felin fach but the most promising looks like the one nearest the glantaff inn quakers yard at the bottom of mill lane .
thanks for the help,will try to find out more from the local history group
regards
daveo
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Pleasure to have been able to help.
Dave Boyce
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Hi there,
I,m from the area and just looking around I have found a photo of an old mill on Mabon Road, which probably is Mabon mill . the site is:-
www.treharrisdistrict.tech-hosts.co.uk/nelsonphotos.php
enjoy
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Hello totally lost,
thanks for the message about the mill,i have lived in nelson for about 40 years and am still finding out things that are interesting about the village and the surrounding areas.
The photo site brought back some memories and you dont realise how the place where you live changes slow enough that you forget the changes.
regards
daveo
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Hi again totally lost,
Ihave just been on old maps looking at llanfabon road and i just cannot figure out where that mill could have been?
at first i thought of the old fiddlers elbow bridge before they built the bridge from the A470 and have followed it up to nelson with no luck.
I can see a visit to the library in the morning
thanks again
daveo
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Photo of Old Mill on http://www.treharrisdistrict.tech-hosts.co.uk/nelsonphotos.php
looks very much like this location in Google Maps Street View:
http://g.co/maps/twcte
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Hi there again-
from the 1861 census, REF R.G.9/4047, E.D. 12 Garth Hamlet.
All that part of Garth Hamlet, from Mafan Mill to Pentysquire, boundary including Graigberthllwyd, Quakers yard etc.....
and the census addresses read as numerated:-
Carpenters arms
Tram road side
Tram road side
Tram road side
Mill House
Cwm
Cwm Mafon
Cwm mafon etc....
So if you Remember where The Carpenters arms was, pop down the tramroad, and its down on the tramroad side at Fiddlers elbow, it may still be standing but I think it was where a new house has been built on the bottom of the hill going up to Pentwyn Deityr. I have faint memories of a building being there and someone telling me it once was a mill. I hope my minds playing tricks and its still standing. Anyhow I wish you good luck in finding where it was
All the best
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I have found an old map with the mill on it-I have tried to attach it to the file but it isnt being accepted-it was at the point where the Mafon reaches the Taff on the right hand side looking from Fiddlers Elbow(not where I thought it was). If you know how private me, do so with your E mail address and I'll send it to you
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Hello ss from the Rhondda,
thank you for the link to llanfabon road.
I assume you had your meal at the railway inn.... if you look again at the map it is shown in the wrong place it is in fact at the junction of the a472 main road and not half way up the hill ( i live about half mile away as the crow flies) as shown .I would like to thank" totally lost" the map he provided shows the mill by the weir at fiddlers elbow.
regards
daveo
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Hi again totally lost,
Ihave just been on old maps looking at llanfabon road and i just cannot figure out where that mill could have been?
at first i thought of the old fiddlers elbow bridge before they built the bridge from the A470 and have followed it up to nelson with no luck.
I can see a visit to the library in the morning
thanks again
daveo
No... the photo of the Mill at Llanfabon Road is nowhere near Fiddler's Elbow. The one in the photo still exists and is inhabited. (was the last time I was there a few months ago). To get to it.. go up from the Railway PH to the Llanfabon Inn (Greyhound), pass the pub but don't take the sharp left that goes around the church.. go towards the pub carpark, but follow the lane down the hill.. to the bottom. Start climbing back uphill and theres a track off to the left leading up the mountain... STOP.. turn around and look at the mill from where that photo was taken !