PONTYPRIDD 



6248 



PONY 



Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Hanbury Road, showing 

 on the right the Town Hall, built in 1850 



works for making iron and tin 

 plate. In the 17th century Thomas 

 Allgood made japanned wares here, 

 and sheet iron was manufactured 

 a little later. Market day, Sat. 

 Pop. 6,500. 



Pontypridd. Market town and 

 urban dist. of Glamorganshire, 

 Wales. It stands at the junction of 

 . the rivers Rhond- 



da and Taff, 12m. 



from Cardiff, and 



is served by the 



G.W., Taff Vale, 



and Rhondda Val- 

 ley RIys. The prin- 



cipal buildings 



Pon'.ypridd arms incl ? de S " Cath u e - 

 nne s church, 



municipal buildings, town hall, and 

 free library. In the neighbourhood 



there are large 

 coal and ironstone 

 mines, and the 

 chief industries 

 are the manufac- 

 ture of tin plate 

 and iron goods, 

 and the founding 

 of iron and brass. 

 The bridge, dating 

 from 1755, which 

 crosses the Taff 

 here, is a wonder- 

 f u 1 engineering 

 f e a t. Pontnew- 

 ydd, the English 

 equivalent of 

 which is New- 

 bridge, Is several miles distant. 

 Pontypridd was only a village un- 

 til the industrial developments of 

 the 19th century. Pop. 47,000. 



Pontypridd, Wales 



dates from 1755 



from 14 hands to as low as eight. 

 There is little doubt it is the oldest 

 breed of domesticated horse. In 

 many details the small, half-wild 

 ponies of the Shetland Islands and 

 Connemara show points of resem- 

 blance to Przevalsky's wild horse of 

 Mongolia, and also with the sketches 

 of horses found in cave dwellings. 

 Prehistoric remains have been 

 found in Ireland, and it was abun- 

 dant in Britain in the Bronze Age. 

 The horses used by the ancient 

 Britons for their war chariots ap- 

 pear to have been Celtic ponies. 

 This Celtic breed is now found in 

 its purest form in Iceland, but the 

 ponies of the Faroe and Shetland 

 Islands have undergone but slight 

 modification. In their pure form 

 these ponies lack the chestnuts on 

 the hind limbs and the ergots on 

 star ; the fetlocks. They 

 develop a heavy 

 rough coat, and 

 the mane and fore 

 lock are remark- 

 ably luxuriant. 

 Another peculiarity 

 is that the hairs at 

 the base of the tail 

 are very stiff and 

 stand out protec- 

 tively on either side. 

 The ponies of 



aver the Tafi, which 



the Devonshire 



Pony (Old Fr. poulenet, from moors and the New Forest have 

 Lat. pullus, young animal). Small undergone considerable modifica- 

 type of horse, ranging in height tion, and this applies also to the 



Pony. Some varieties of the breed. 1. New Forest pony, domesticated. 2. Mongolian, or Przevalsky's horse. 3. Welsh 



mountain pony. 4. Shetland stallion 



