GLORY OF GLAMORGAN
For many, Glamorgan in South Wales conjures images of its mighty 19th-century coal and steel industry when, still encapsulating its county town of Cardiff, it was the ‘engine of the empire’. One of the 13 historic Welsh counties, Glamorgan was formed by the 1536 Act of Union.
Today, the name only officially lives on in the Vale of Glamorgan, a dramatic coastal county divorced from major urban centres and largely rural in nature, which stretches from elegant Penarth, Cardiff’s Victorian seaside sister town in the east, to Ogmore Vale in the west.
The Vale is Wales’ wealthiest and most sophisticated region – home to the
