Brynmenyn is a small village located at the confluence of the Garw and Ogmore rivers in south Wales, around 4 miles north of Bridgend, and it also in the Bridgend County Borough council area.

[1] The A4065 road runs through the village; to the west this leads to Tondu, and to the east it heads to Abergarw and Bryncethin.

Bryngarw Country Park is situated on the north-western boundary of the village.

Memories of Sarah Jane Howell: A Welsh story of the greatest Heroine by Roger G K Penn.

Sarah Jane was assistant mistress at Brynmenyn Council School who died, aged 21, in the Llynfi river near Bridgend whilst rescuing one of her pupils from drowning on the 19th of December 1911.'