{"id":185,"date":"2010-06-17T01:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2017-01-10T03:23:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:23:55","slug":"the-garw-valley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"The Garw Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Garw Valley is a former coal mining community just north of Bridgend, nestling between the Llynfi and Ogmore valleys.<\/p>\n<p>The Garw itself stretches approximately 6 miles north to south rising steeply until it reaches Carn &amp; Werfa mountains which dominate the northern region of the valley historically referred to as the Rhyl valley but now more commonly known as Garw Fechan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk:\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-186 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"garwmap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk:\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/garwmap.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing The Garw Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The notably steep gradient of the slopes of Garw Fechan has precluded any major urban development and for this reason it remains a particularly peaceful and undisturbed area.<\/p>\n<p>From the mid 1850s the Garw Valley has indergone tremendous changes and we hope we can do something towards telling its story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have a lovely post about the history of the Garw Valley <a title=\"Garw Valley, A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/?p=678\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garw Valley is a former coal mining community just north of Bridgend, nestling between the Llynfi and Ogmore valleys. The Garw itself stretches approximately 6 miles north to south rising steeply until it reaches Carn &amp; Werfa mountains which dominate the northern region of the valley historically referred to as the Rhyl valley but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/2715"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}