Llwynypia Hospital

The facility has its origins an old subsidiary workhouse which was completed in 1903.^[1] An infirmary was added in 1909 and it had become a general hospital by 1927^[2] before joining the National Health Service as Llwynypia Hospital in 1948.^[1] As the only village with maternity facilities in the Rhondda, most residents from the area over the last century have Llwynypia as their place of birth on their birth certificates.^[3] After services transferred to the new Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda, Llwynypia Hospital closed in January 2010.^[4]