Pant is a village and
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
on the outskirts of
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil () 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 Tydfil, daughter of K ...
, a large former mining town in the
South Wales Valleys
The South Wales Valleys () are a group of industrialised peri-urban valleys in South Wales. Most of the valleys run northsouth, roughly parallel to each other. Commonly referred to as "The Valleys" (), they stretch from Carmarthenshire in the ...
, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the
Brecon Mountain Railway
The Brecon Mountain Railway (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Rheilffordd Fynydd y Bannau'') is a Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge tourist railway on the south side of the Brecon Beacons in Wales. It climbs northwards from Pant railway station (Bre ...
, 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.
References
External links
Old Merthyr Tydfil: Pantyscallog (Pant)- Historical Photographs of Pantyscallog (Pant), Merthyr Tydfil.
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Villages in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
Communities in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough