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Pant Cefn-y-Ffordd Sink, Penderyn Church Sink


NGR: SN 94270 08580
282 m.asl

Rhondda Cynon Taff , Northern Outcrop - Central (Penwyllt to Penderyn)
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Sink
Access Turn left at the cross roads in Pontbren, up the hill, turning left at the top to Pant Cefn-y-Fford farm. Enquire there for permission. Go through the farm yard gate to the large shakehole with pine trees to the North of the farm. The sink is in the NE face of the hole.
Description The shakehole drains the ground to the East of Moel Penderyn and takes three streams in wet weather, which sink into the glacial drift at the East face of the shakehole. The main stream comes down from the West in a mini-gorge.
History Dug by WSG
Hydrology OB Tests by Morgan: Negative test to Tor y Foel; suspected long flowthrough to Llygad Cynon (via, untested, Pen yr Eithin?) Tests
Conservation
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2015
Survey
References
Signpost 23.3.62 (British Nylon Spinners Weekly Newspaper), Davies, M.
BrynmawrCC Jn.1999-2000, Roy Morgan, Water tracing Penderyn area
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