Ogmore Valley
| Ogmore Valley | |
| Welsh: Cwm Ogwr | |
  Ogmore Valley Ogmore Valley shown within Bridgend | |
| Population | 7,800 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | SS929904 |
| Community | Ogmore Valley |
| Principal area | Bridgend |
| Ceremonial county | Mid Glamorgan |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRIDGEND |
| Postcode district | CF32 |
| Dialling code | 01656 |
| Police | South Wales |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | Bridgend |
| Welsh Assembly | Bridgend |
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Ogmore Valley (Welsh: Cwm Ogwr) is a community in the Bridgend County Borough, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Made up of the villages of Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, Price Town and Wyndham, its population as of the 2001 Census was 7,800.[1] The ribbon housing of the valley follows the Ogwr Fawr tributary which rises at Craig Ogwr and joins the Ogwr Fach at Blackmill.
Ogmore Valley contains most of the basins of the Ogwr Fawr and Ogwr Fach valleys and reaches as far north as the Bwlch-y-clawdd, a hill which whose road links the community to the Rhondda Valley. Originally a sparsely populated pastoral area, the arrival of the coal industry in the mid 19th century resulted in a population boom. From the 1860s onwards the valley experienced an increase in settlements after the establishment of the coal mines, later owned by the Ocean, Cory, Lewis Merthyr and Glenavon coal companies.[2]
References
- ↑ "Area: Bridgend 003 (Middle Layer Super Output Area)". Office for National Statistics, 2001 Census. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ↑ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines et al., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 629. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
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