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Extract from the Merthyr Tydfil Travel Guides:
Downtown
MERTHYR TYDFIL
(or Tudful), ten miles north of Pontypridd, is a robust place whose main glory is its location at the top of the Taff Valley, on the cusp of the industrial coal country to the south and the grand, windy heights of the Brecon Beacons to the north. In the eighteenth century it became the largest iron-producing town in the world, as well as by far the most populous town in Wales, with four massive ironworks exploiting the local abundance of the key ingredients: iron ore, coal and limestone. A century earlier, what was then a village became a rallying point for Dissenter and Radical movements, which gained adherents...
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