Miskin

Miskin (Welsh: Meisgyn) is a village approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Llantrisant in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

[1] The opening of the Bute and Mwyndy iron ore mines in nearby Talbot Green, in 1852 and 1853 respectively,[2] had a huge impact on the small hamlet of New Mill.

The census of 1861 shows that New Mill had become a village, its population now 83 people in 17 households, and of these residents 17 were iron ore miners.

[3] Williams, a staunch Welsh patriot, lived at Miskin Manor[3] (built 1864), a Victorian L-plan mansion in a neo-Tudor style.

The 1871 census records the village's population as 144, with more than half of the miners being immigrants from the depressed copper mining county of Cornwall.

St David's Church, 2010