Glyncorrwg townscape has Brick Street at its centre, which is a street of three storeyed houses that were built in the 1860s for officials of the Glyncorrwg Colliery Co and the South Wales Mineral Railway. The opening of the railway in 1863 made it possible to work this remote corner of the coal field, and this led to intensive house building in a village that had previously consisted of a few cottages and a church.

Source: Stephen Hughes and Paul Reynolds (1989) 'A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region' Association for Industrial Archaeology.

Claire Parry, RCAHMW, 27 October 2011.