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Village in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Trecynon is a village near Aberdare situated in the Cynon Valley, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It dates from the early nineteenth century and developed as a result of the opening of the Aberdare Ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800. With the opening of the ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800, the conurbation became an urbanised village, with housing and amenities (such as the 1855 Heolyfelin Chapel) built away from the Heol y Felin itself. As such, an eisteddfod competition was organised to decide a new name for the village, with the name Trecynon (English: Town on the Cynon) being declared the winner. From around 1860, the new name was widely adopted by both Welsh and English speakers although Thomas Morgan recorded the village as still being named Heolyfelin in the 1887, despite the Mill itself no longer being extant.

The first buildings in Trecynon were Llwydcoed Mill, the Hen Dy Cwrdd in 1751 and a single solitary house built next to it. In 1811, the Robertstown Tramway Bridge, was built over the river Cynon, linking Heolyfelin and Robertstown. It is the oldest of its kind in the world. By the 1860s Heolyfelin had become one of the main population centres in the parish of Aberdare, and Harriet Street, Ebenezer Street, Alma Street, Mount Pleasant Street and Margaret Street were all built in this period. The hall was officially opened on 10 March 1903 when a grand concert was organised. St Fagan's Church is one of the oldest churches in the Aberdare district and was built in the 1854 when John Griffith was vicar of Aberdare. It was built to serve the needs of the growing Anglican congregation in the upper Cynon Valley. The church was paid for by Harriet Windsor Clive, Baroness Windsor and, when the church burnt down in 1856, was rebuilt again at her expense. Each of the major nonconformist denominations established chapels at Trecynon. Ebenezer was one of the oldest Independent chapels in the locality. Heolyfelin was established in 1855 as a branch of the Baptist church at Hirwaun. Carmel was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, as was Bryn Seion in Mill Street,

The most prominent local attraction and landmark is Aberdare Park, a popular public Victorian era park which was opened in 1869 on a site. The Aberdare College campus site of Coleg Morgannwg is situated within the northern part of the village, on Cwmdare Road. Aberdare Boys Grammar School was opened in Trecynon in 1896 as 'Aberdare Intermediate School' for both boys and girls the girls leaving in 1913 for their own new school at Plasdraw. The boys school relocated to Cwmdare Road in 1964 and ceased to be a grammar school in 1978 when it became the new Aberdare Boys Comprehensive School, but changed its name to Aberdare High School in 2009, and closed in the summer of 2014. Comin Infant school and Comin Junior School are located within the village. Both school sites are physically connected.