Gurnos
Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate. The population in 2011 5,280.[1]
Background
The Gurnos Estate is a large
The area was formerly open land, including the long-established Gurnos Farm. It also encompassed the notoriously dangerous Goitre Pond.
The design and planning of the Gurnos estate borrows ideas from the
The Gurnos Tavern, one of the two community centres and many of the maisonette flats were demolished to make greener areas during the late 1990s.
Amenities
The Gurnos estate includes a main small shopping centre at Chestnut Way, known locally as The Gurnos Shops, a social club ( The Gurnos Club), and a community centre, all located within a few yards of each other. Other shops were also part of the estate's design at Pen-Gurnos and Clover Road. There have also been two pubs, the Gurnos Tavern and later The Matchstick Man, named after late boxer Johnny Owen, however both have since closed.
The Clover Road Stores are a small shopping section on Clover Road. They have a
In 1999 the 3Gs Development Trust was established to work with the communities of the Gurnos and Galon Uchaf, offering support, information and developmental activities.[5] The trust's offices are based at The Gurnos Shops, together with other centres including a youth centre at Forsythia Close. The name 3Gs illustrates the local perception that there are two estates, separated by Prince Charles Hospital; the Old Gurnos and the New Estate; being two of the Gs, together with Galon Uchaf being the third. Penydarren was later added to the 3Gs remit and by 2013 the organisation's remit was expanded to include other wards as the Communities First North Cluster.[6]
The only
References
- ^ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics".
- ^ "Communitry population 2011". Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ 21.17 EDT (7 May 2005). "Crowds flock to 'baby in bag' estate | UK news". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Donald Nicolson & Lois Bibbings, Feminist perspectives on criminal law (p 124ff)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "3Gs Development Trust".
External links
- Old Merthyr Tydfil: Gurnos - Historical Photographs of the Gurnos.
- www.geograph.co.uk : photos of the Gurnos and surrounding area
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