| Full name | Ynysybwl Rugby Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | Bwl | |
| Founded | 1898[1] | |
| Location | Ynysybwl, Wales | |
| Ground(s) | The Recreation Ground | |
| League(s) | WRU Division Two East | |
| 2009-10 | 6th[2] | |
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| Official website | ||
| www.ynysybwlrfc.co.uk | ||
Ynysybwl Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Ynysybwl. Today, Ynysybwl RFC plays in the Welsh Rugby Union, Division Two East League and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues.[3]
Ynysbwl RFC was established in 1898, there is a likelihood of rugby being played before this date but there is no reliable source to corroborate this.[4] In the years between 1945 and 1955 Ynysybwl played in the Glamorgan League and Cup with other local clubs such as Pontypridd RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC and Glamorgan Wanderers. From the 1980's the club joined the Mid District League.
Club honours [link]
- 1998/99 Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy - Winners
- 2005/06 Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy - Winners
- 2005/06 Glamorgan County President's Cup - Winners
Notable past players [link]
References [link]
- ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pp11 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
- ^ WRU Official web site.
- ^ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/3877085.stm. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ [1] Ynysybwl Club History
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Ynysybwl
Coordinates: 51°38′24″N 3°22′03″W / 51.640°N 3.3675°W
Ynysybwl (Welsh: Ynys-y-bŵl [ənɪsəˈbʊl]) is a village in Cwm Clydach in Wales. It is situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly 20 miles (32 km) north-north-west of Cardiff, 4 miles (6 km) north of Pontypridd and 10 miles (16 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the community of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm.
Cwm Clydach is flanked by the Rhondda and Cynon Valleys. The market town of Pontypridd lies to the south at the meeting point of the three valleys; and to the north lies the large Llanwynno forestry. Before the local government reforms of 1996 Ynysybwl was in the Cynon Valley district of Morgannwg Ganol, and the area is historically a part of Glamorgan (Morgannwg).
Name
There is debate over the meaning of the name of the village with several conflicting definitions existing.
Ynys mean island in Welsh but no official translation for bŵl exists. Some theories include mutation from pwll (Welsh for pool), a loan-word from English bowl (a reference to the shape of the valley) or mutation from the name Hywel (a monk from Margam who is said to have worked the land in the 16th Century). Other locally considered meanings of bŵl include rock or coal but neither has any similarity to Welsh equivalent words.
