Commercial History of Ystradgynlais and District
From the late nineteenth century into the early decades of the twentieth, Ystradgynlais grew from the status of a village to that of a town. Industry, commerce, and services grew in proportion to the increasing population, and many areas of the town which are nowadays solely residential had rows of shops, businesses, and public houses.
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The oldest pubs in the Ystradgynlais district include the large coaching inns which used to come complete with stable blocks; these include the Jeffreys Arms, the Penybont Inn, and the Tafarn Twrch (as the Castle Inn). Other old pubs up the valley, such as the Tafarn y Garreg, started out as drovers' stops.
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Ystradgynlais bakers include Abrahams who used to be based in what is now the main car park, off Heol Maes y Dre. Another bakers occupied the area behind Calfaria Chapel, that is now the site of a private bungalow, alongside the access walkway to Maes y Cynog.
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A lot of the history of the industrialization of coal mining in Ystradgynlais and district, and indeed in Ystslyfera, can be traced back by looking at the leases of land and mining rights made by landowners Richard Douglas Gough and his son Fleming RDA Gough throughout the 19th and early 20th century. Many of these records are held in the Ynyscedwyn estate papers of the West Glamorgan Archive Service.
