Dinas Rhondda

Coordinates: 51°37′10″N 3°25′51″W / 51.61948°N 3.43073°W / 51.61948; -3.43073

Dinas
Dinas  Dinas shown within Rhondda Cynon Taf
OS grid reference	ST007917
Principal area	Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ceremonial county	Mid Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TONYPANDY / PORTH
Postcode district	CF40 / CF39
Dialling code	01443
Police	South Wales
Fire	South Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
EU Parliament	Wales
UK Parliament	Rhondda
Welsh Assembly	Rhondda
List of places: UK • Wales • Rhondda Cynon Taf

Dinas (welsh for 'city', or in this instance 'hill fort') is a village near Tonypandy in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Dinas is often referred to as Dinas Rhondda as in the railway station such as to avoid confusion with Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan. Other neighbouring settlements are Penygraig, Trealaw, Cymmer and Porth.

Dinas is famous for being the site of the first deep coal mine in the Rhondda valley, which being Dinas Lower (Dinas Isaf/Dinas Ishaf) Colliery sunk by Walter Coffin in 1812 close to his Dinas Levels near Penygraig. This was later followed by the sinking of the Dinas Middle Colliery in 1832 along the southern banks of the river Rhondda Fawr opposite from Dinas Rhondda railway station. From here coal was carried via tramway via Porth & Cymmer, Trehafod and through to Pontypridd, where it was conveyed by canal to Cardiff. By 1893 production had ceased in both collieries.

In 1841 the 4 mile long Rhondda branch line of the Taff Vale Railway was opened between Pontypridd and Dinas, soon later to be extended up to nearby Tonypandy, before eventually being extended as far as Treherbert by 1856. Dinas was also home to the first Methodist Chapel established in the Rhondda, the Ebenezer having been built around 1830.

External links

• Welsh Coal Mines - research the pit history of local pits