Ogmore Valley

Ogmore Valley Welsh: Cwm Ogwr
Population	7,954 (2011)
OS grid reference	SS929904
Community	Ogmore Valley
Principal area	Bridgend County Borough
Preserved county	Mid Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRIDGEND
Postcode district	CF32
Postcode district	CF35
Dialling code	01656
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Rhondda and Ogmore
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Bridgend

Ogmore Valley (Welsh: Cwm Ogwr) is a community in the Bridgend County Borough, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Made up of the villages of Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, Price Town and Wyndham, its population at the time of the 2001 census was 7,800,^[1] increasing to 7,954 at the 2011 Census.^[2] The ribbon housing of the valley follows the Ogwr Fawr tributary which rises at Craig Ogwr and joins the Ogwr Fach at Blackmill. Villages include Nantymoel, Price Town, Wyndham, Ogmore Vale, Lewistown, Pant-yr-awel and Blackmill.

Ogmore Valley contains most of the basins of the Ogwr Fawr and Ogwr Fach valleys and reaches as far north as the Bwlch-y-clawdd, a mountain whose road links the community to the Rhondda Valley. Originally a sparsely populated pastoral area, the arrival of the coal industry in the mid 19th century resulted in a population boom. From the 1860s onwards the valley experienced an increase in settlements after the establishment of the coal mines, later owned by the Ocean, Cory, Lewis Merthyr and Glenavon coal companies.^[3]

In 2022 Ogmore Valley Community Council made the news when only one person came forward to compete for the fifteen council seats.^[4]

References

1. "Area: Bridgend 003 (Middle Layer Super Output Area)". Office for National Statistics, 2001 Census. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
2. "Community population 2011". Retrieved 6 November 2015.
3. Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 629. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
4. "Lower-tier local government in Bridgend reaches 'crisis point' with community councils short on numbers". Wales Online. 24 April 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.

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