Tonypandy
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| Tonypandy | ||
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| Statistics | ||
| Population: | {{{Population}}} | |
| Ordnance Survey | ||
| OS grid reference: | Maps for SS995925 | |
| Administration | ||
| Principal area: | Rhondda Cynon Taff | |
| Constituent country: | Wales | |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom | |
| Other | ||
| Police force: | South Wales Police | |
| Ceremonial county: | Mid Glamorgan | |
| Historic county: | Glamorganshire | |
| Post office and telephone | ||
| Post town: | TONYPANDY | |
| Postal district: | CF40 | |
| Dialling code: | +44-1443 | |
| Politics | ||
| UK Parliament: | Rhondda | |
| European Parliament: | Wales | |
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Tonypandy is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, lying in the Rhondda Fawr Valley. It is one of the principal shopping areas in the Rhondda and has many shops to cater for all needs. It has one supermarket. A new supermarket should be opening in 2006 in the former Kwik Save store.
The town lies near the Mynydd y Gelli Iron and Bronze Age settlement and stone circle. Famous people from the town include George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy.
A major event in the town's history was the Tonypandy Riot of 1910.
Tonypandy is also a term coined by the character Alan Grant in Josephine Tey's 1951 novel The Daughter of Time for faulty collective memory or popular history. The widely-known account of a historical event (such as the Tonypandy Riot), it is argued, may very well be entirely fallacious.
[edit] Sports and recreation
Tonypandy has a King George's Field, the Athletics Ground, in memorial to King George V
