''The Aberdare Times'' was a weekly English-language newspaper based in
south Wales
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. Its circulation was mainly in
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydf ...
,
Hirwaun
Hirwaun is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is NW of the town of Aberdare, and comes under the Aberdare post town. At the 2001 census, Hirwaun had a populati ...
,
Mountain Ash Mountain ash may refer to:
* ''Eucalyptus regnans'', the tallest of all flowering plants, native to Australia
* Mountain-ashes or rowans, varieties of trees and shrubs in the genus ''Sorbus''
See also
* Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Mountai ...
,
Pontypridd,
Neath Valley
The Vale of Neath (or Neath Valley, Welsh: ''Cwm Nedd''), one of the South Wales Valleys, encompasses the upper reaches of the River Neath in southwest Wales. In addition to the River Neath, it is traversed by the Neath Canal and the A465 dual ...
,
Rhondda and
Cardiff
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.
The paper had Labour/Liberal tendencies and its main content was local news. At its inception,
Josiah Thomas Jones (1799–1873) was the owner, publisher and editor.
Welsh Newspapers Online
Welsh Newspapers Online is the searchable digital archive of historic Welsh newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales. It is a work in progress and, , over 1,100,000 newspaper pages from 120 newspapers were available free online, compris ...
has digitised more than 1,700 issues of the Aberdare Times (1861–1902) from
the National Library of Wales's newspaper collection.
See also
*''
The Gwron'' (1856–1860)
*''
The Aberdare Leader
''The Aberdare Leader'' was a weekly English-language newspaper that was published between 1902 and 1991 in south Wales. It circulated in the Aberdare Valley, Mountain Ash, Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd and Glyn Neath.
The main content of the paper w ...
'' (1902–1991)
References
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Newspapers published in Wales