Tondu is located nearly five miles north of Bridgend town centre, borderd to the south by Aberkenfig and to the east by Sarn. The first edition of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map, published in 1877, show that the village was domiated by Tondû Iron Works (NPRN 34119), and other signs of industrialisation include Evanstown Brickworks, a gas works and a station (NPRN 34882) on the Porthcawl and Llynfi branches of the Great Western Railway. There was also a saw mill called Felin Fâch to the east of the village. There were three chapels, all located in the southern part of Tondu: Carew English Baptist Chapel (NPRN 10013); the Welsh Baptist Capel Jerusalem (NPRN 10014) and a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (NPRN 10019). Little had changed by the time the second edition of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey maps was published in 1899, and the most notable addition to the third edition (published in 1919) was a school, built between Weslseyan Methodist Chapel and Jersualem Chapel. The fourth edition, published in 1942, shows that the Ironworks had been replaced by an engineering works, and the coke ovens immediatley to the west had become a 'coke and by-product works.' Numerous allotment gardens had developed to the south of the village, a Parish Room is noted next to the sawmill, and there is a 'boys club' near the railway station. In the twenty-first century, the village has continued to develop. The bricksworks has been replaced by a Lidl and a street named 'clos gwaith brics'. The area which onces housed the cokeworks, ironworks and engineering works has become a wooded area called 'Tondu Iron Park.' The railway station remains open, although there is only one platform now with no amenities, on the line between Maesteg and Bridgend. An enterprise park has been built on the site of the old colliery, and the Methodist chapel and the Parish Hall remain open. Other amenities in Tondu now include a cricket club, a youth centre, a primary school and a community college (on the site of Adare College), and a public house called the Llyfni Arms,