Pontygwaith

There is little of the original village remaining today, which was inhabited and existed until approx 1977 as a terrace of ten houses and a farm.

The site of the original village is accessible from the Taff Trail National cycle route 8.

[citation needed] The bridge over the River Taff at Pontygwaith is a Grade II listed structure.

[3] and was featured in the Beauty and the Beast episode of the BBC's Merlin, where a girl has a picnic with a troll beneath the bridge.

The National Cycle Route 477 Taith Trevithick Trail heads up the east side of the valley from Pontygwaith to Trevithick's Tunnel - just south of Merthyr Tydfil, old stone sleepers can still be seen all around these trails on the east side of the valley where the famous tramroad ran.