Pant Station Geograph-1459891-by-John-Grayson

Pant is a village and

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

on the outskirts of

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 ...

, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the

Brecon Mountain Railway The Brecon Mountain Railway (Welsh: ''Rheilffordd Mynydd Brycheiniog'') is a narrow gauge tourist railway on the south side of the Brecon Beacons. It climbs northwards from Pant along the full length of the Pontsticill Reservoir (also called ...

, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2,656.

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Old Merthyr Tydfil: Pantyscallog (Pant)
- Historical Photographs of Pantyscallog (Pant), Merthyr Tydfil. {{authority control Villages in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Communities in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough