Tonteg
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| Tonteg shown within Rhondda Cynon Taf | |
| Population | 4,098 (2011 ward) |
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| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Pontypridd |
| Postcode district | CF38 1 |
| Police | South Wales |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Tonteg is a village around three and a half miles (6 km) from Pontypridd, south Wales. It is 9 miles (14.5 km) north west of Cardiff and four miles (6.5 km) north east of Llantrisant. The village is within the community of Llantwit Fardre. Tonteg is to the north west of the Garth Mountain, on the west side of the River Taff valley, at the top of a hill known locally as Powerstation Hill. The hill gets its name from the Upper Boat power station which was situated at the bottom of the hill until it was demolished in 1972. Tonteg is next to Church Village and the boundaries between the two villages are blurred. A significant part of the Treforest Industrial Estate falls within the Willowford area of Tonteg.
The village has a fairly well preserved 12th-century motte castle with an intact moat called Tomen-Y-Clawdd. To locals this fort situated in Ffordd Gerdinan is known as the Monkey Tump
Tonteg Hospital exists in the north of the village, now surrounded by housing estates. It was originally an isolation hospital treating contagious diseases. Nowadays it provides mental health care and other services. No emergency services are provided.
Gwauncelyn Primary School serves the local community.
Two main areas of local businesses exist along Main Road through the village and in the center of one of the housing estates (Cardigan Close area). Tonteg still has a post office.
There are bus services to Beddau, Cardiff, Pontypridd, Talbot Green and Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
Tonteg used to have at differing times two stations - both called Tonteg Halt railway station - on two former railway lines that ran nearby; Barry Railway and the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. After 1930 the original Tonteg Halt was moved to Tonteg Junction after track rationalisation; the name Tonteg Halt was used for this station.
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