Pentwyn Deintyr is a hill-top hamlet in the community of Bedlinog and Trelewis,

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Merthyr Tydfil County Borough () is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. In , it had an estimated population of , making it the smallest local authority in Wales by population. It is located in ...

, south-east Wales. Ordnance Survey mapping places the centre on grid reference ST 096 962 at about 140 m above sea level, straddling the minor ridge road between

Quakers Yard Quakers Yard or Quaker's Yard () is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins the Taff Valley. The settlement is part of the community of Treharris. History The early place name for the dist ...

and

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. The settlement stands 900 m north of the county boundary with

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and 1.2 km east of the

Taff Bargoed The Taff Bargoed () is a river and valley near Pontypridd in South Wales, and lies off the Abercynon roundabout on the A470 road, and is approximately 14 miles from Cardiff. The main settlements are Nelson, Edwardsville, Quakers Yard, Treharri ...

river; the A470 trunk road runs on the opposite valley side, giving Pentwyn Deintyr a direct road link to

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 ...

(8 km north-west) and

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(28 km south-east). The place-name is first recorded in eighteenth-century lease documents and is analysed by Owen and Morgan as Welsh pen twyn y deintyr—'summit of the tenter-hill'. A

tenter Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hook, hooked Nail (fastener), nails used with a device known as a ''tenter'', a wooden frame, used since at least the 14th century in the process of making wool, woolen cloth, over which wet cloth would be st ...

was a wooden frame studded with hook-like pins used by the local cottage woollen industry to dry and stretch woven cloth; the clustering of such frames on an exposed knoll gave both topographical and occupational identity to the growing hamlet. Pentwyn Deintyr has never formed a separate civil parish but is enumerated with Bedlinog and Trelewis ward. The 2021 Census recorded 3,767 usual residents in the 15.22 km² ward, a rise of 15 per cent since 2011; housing density remains low at 247 inhabitants per km², with most dwellings lining Pentwyn Deintyr road and the steep lanes that descend to Quakers Yard. The hamlet's best-known native is the

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boxer

Jimmy Wilde William James Wilde (12 May 1892 – 10 March 1969) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He simultaneously held the National Sporting Clubs British flyweight title and the World Flyweight championship from 1916 to 1923. ...

(1892–1969), whose birth certificate and Army service record both give Pentwyn Deintyr as his birthplace. Wilde rose from pit boy to become the first official world flyweight champion and was later elected to the inaugural class of the

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{{authority control Villages in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough