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A list of Rhondda field-names compiled by H[enry] Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, from records in the Bailey Estate Office, Ton Pentre, Glamorgan, in July 1898.

Records of the Rhondda Conservative and Unionist Association, 1971-1986, including minutes of Executive Council meetings, 1973-1986; minutes of the Mid-Rhondda Branch, 1971-1976; minutes of Joint Branch meetings, 1976-1986; and photocopies of the Rhondda Conservative and Unionist Association Newsletter, 1976-1986.

Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

A note written in 1931 by Tom Jones, Coedcae, Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 'The Place-Name Britannia, Porth, Rhondda'.

Darlith, a gopïwyd [1935x1959], yn portreadu cymeriadau a adwaenid fel ‘Shoni’, sef glowyr Cwm Rhondda. Mae’r llawysgrif yn gopi o NLW MS 19613B a ysgrifennwyd gan, ac yn llaw, Henry Howard Evans, Llwynypia, rheolwr cyffredinol Cambrian Collieries Ltd. = A lecture, copied [1935x1959], portraying characters known as ‘Shoni’, a name given to Rhondda Valley coalminers. The manuscript is a copy of NLW 19613B by, and in the hand of, Henry Howard Evans, Llwynypia, general manager of Cambrian Collieries Ltd.