Mafon mill

[totally lost]

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

[totally lost]

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

[daveo]

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

[Dickie831]

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 !