Dewi Sant Hospital ( cy, Ysbyty Dewi Sant) is a small hospital on Albert Road, in

Pontypridd () ( colloquially: Ponty) is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Geography comprises the electoral wards of , Hawthorn, Pontypridd Town, 'Rhondda', Rhydyfelin Central/Ilan ( Rhydfelen), Trallwng ( Trallwn) and Treforest (). ...

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. It is managed by the

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History

The hospital has its origins in the Pontypridd Union Workhouse which was completed in 1865. An infirmary and isolation hospital were built on the site in the late 19th century. The tunnel mouth of

Pontypridd Graig railway station Pontypridd Graig railway station was a railway station located in the South Wales valleys town of Pontypridd, on the Barry Railway. Although the line was opened for mineral traffic on 18 July 1889 to take coal from Rhondda to the Docks, the pa ...

, which emerges into in the hospital car park, was last used in 1930. The complex joined the

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as Graig Hospital in 1948. After the war it became a geriatric hospital before being completely re-built as Dewi Sant Hospital in the 1960s.

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Cwm Taf University Health Board
Hospitals in Rhondda Cynon Taf Hospitals established in 1865 1865 establishments in Wales Buildings and structures in Rhondda Cynon Taf NHS hospitals in Wales Pontypridd Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board {{UK-hospital-stub