An Overview Of The Town

 
Treorchy

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“Treorchy...can truly claim to be the
                                  
cultural capital of Fawr and Fach...”

The name of Treorchy is indelibly linked the World over with the famous Treorchy Male Voice Choir, and indeed this town, the only one in the Rhondda ever to host the National Eisteddfod, can truly claim to be the cultural capital of Fawr and Fach, with the award winning Parc & Dare Brass band, a Choral Society and the Parc and Dare Theatre all based in the town. Linked by regular trains on the Rhondda Line with Tonypandy, Pontypridd and Cardiff, and by bus with all the communities of the Rhondda Fawr, Treorchy is also a major road junction where routes from Hirwaun, Pontypridd, Bridgend and Port Talbot all converge.




Mae’r enw Treorci wedi’i gysylltu’n annileadwy â chôr meibion y dref ar draws y byd yn grwn. Yn wir, mae modd i’r dref yma, yr unig un yng Nghwm Rhondda i groesawu’r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol erioed, i hawlio’r teitl ‘Canolfan Ddiwylliannol Cymoedd Rhondda Fawr a Rhondda Fach’ gan mai i hon mae band bres llwyddiannus y Parc a’r Dâr yn perthyn ac mae hi’n gartref yn ogystal i Gymdeithas Gorawl Treorci a Theatr y Parc a’r Dâr. A gwasanaeth trên rheolaidd yn ei chysylltu â Thonypandy, Pontypridd a’r Brifddinas – a gwasanaethau bysiau rhyngddi hi a phob un o gymunedau cwm afon Rhondda Fawr, mae Treorci’n ogystal yn gyffordd bwysig, gyda’r priffyrdd o Hirwaun, Pontypridd, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr ac Aberafan yn cyfarfod ar ei sgwâr.