The Aberdare Times

The Aberdare Times was a weekly English-language newspaper based in south Wales. Its circulation was mainly in Merthyr Tydfil, Hirwaun, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd, Neath Valley, Rhondda and Cardiff.

The Aberdare Times

The Aberdare times: Merthyr, Hirwain, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd, Vale of Neath, Rhondda Valley, Cardiff, and South Wales general advertiser
Type	weekly newspaper
Publisher	Josiah Thomas Jones
Editor	Josiah Thomas Jones[*]
Launched	6 April 1861
City	Aberdare
Country	Wales
OCLC number	751651252
Media of Wales List of newspapers

The paper had Labour/Liberal tendencies and its main content was local news. At its inception, Josiah Thomas Jones (1799–1873) was the owner, publisher and editor.

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised more than 1,700 issues of the Aberdare Times (1861–1902) from the National Library of Wales's newspaper collection.

See also

• The Gwron (1856–1860)
• The Aberdare Leader (1902–1991)^[1]