Municipal cemetery in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales
Aerial view of Aberfan CemeteryThe Children's cemetery, where children killed in the Aberfan disaster are buried.
Aberfan Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwent Aberfan) is a cemetery near the village of Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five cemeteries in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, and is particularly well known for the graves of 144 victims of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, when a colliery coal tip collapsed and killed many people in the village of Aberfan.
The cemetery was opened in 1876, and includes Bryntaf Cemetery, an extension opened in 1913.[1] It covers about 8 acres[1] (3 hectares). The cemetery is Green Flag Accredited.[1] In 2022 the cemetery, together with the memorial garden and the area of the tip and its slide path, were listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The record of the Grade II* listed site describes it as being "of great national importance and meaning."[2]
As well as a monument to the Aberfan disaster victims, there is also a military monument to seven soldiers drowned in the Bristol Channel in 1888.[3][4]
^ abcCouncil, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. "Burial and Cremation". Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
^Cadw. "Aberfan: Cemetery, Garden of Remembrance and Former Tip and Slide Area (PGW(Gm)69(MER))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
^"Bryntaf Cemetery (Aberfan)".
^"Aberfan Bryntaf Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Western Mail. 13 October 1900. Retrieved 9 May 2020. "Col Morgan Lindsay at Aberfan". Merthyr Pioneer. 11 July 1914. Retrieved 10 May 2020. "Sutton Courtenay...
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