Very different now---cottage has gone and houses on the right hand side of road.Can anyone say where the name PONTYAGYLLA comes from??

Names of people

In doorway: Will & Jenny Davies (formaly Perrot)

Left to right:

Will Meyrick, Will Ress (Twyn), Jack Rees, Tom Meyrick & Post Master of Maesycwmmer

I believe that the Pont relates to a bridge ( e.g. Pont-y-pridd ) and Gylla may relate to the small brook / stream which flows into the one behind commercial street!! Cythla??

Yes the house is named after the Cylla brook that runs from Gelligaer mountain joining the river rhymney at Ysrad Mynach. The valley running from Penpedairheol down past Penallta is called Cwm Cylla - valley of the Cylla river.