Gilfach Goch (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gilfach Goch is a small former coal mining village in Rhondda Cynon Taff, south Wales, near the larger community of Tonyrefail in the Ogmore (Ogwr Fach) Valley. A view of Gilfach Goch in the south Wales valleysIt is reputed to have once been home to the author Richard Llewellyn who based his novel How Green Was My Valley in a fictional town assumed to be based on Gilfach Goch. Llewellyn would spend long summer holidays with his grandfather in the village. The oldest building in the village is the Griffin Inn pub, which is situated at the bottom of a country lane.