Hopkinstown is a former coalmining and industrial community, now a district in the town of Pontypridd within the Rhondda electoral ward.

Owned by Evan Hopkin, the area developed quickly, until around 1850 it was beginning to urbanise after the sinking of two collieries: Ty Mawr and Gyfeillion.

Along with buildings to house the miners, Hopkinstown quickly acquired a chemical works, an iron foundry and coke ovens.

[2] On Tuesday 11 April 1893, fire broke out in the Great Western Mine colliery, trapping some 200 miners underground.

[3] On 23 January 1911 eleven people died in the Hopkinstown rail disaster,[4] when a carriage carrying passengers collided with a stationary coal train on the Taff Vale Railway line.