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Hirwaun is a modern parish within the rural deanery of Aberdare in the diocese of Llandaff.

St. Lleurwg's church, Hirwaun, was first erected in 1858 as a chapel of ease to Aberdare and was restored in 1884. The ecclesiastical parish of Hirwaun was created in 1886 from the civil parishes of Aberdare in Glamorgan and Penderyn in the county of Brecon.

The sister church in the parish is St Winifred's which is located in Penywaun.

 

 

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