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.