Merthyr Tydfil Coat of Arms

The arms were granted in to the Merthyr Tydfil in 1908. The arms were regranted in 1976 and 1996 when the town was enlarged. The arms simply show the patron saint of the town, Saint Tydfil, who was a martyr (Merthyr in Welsh). Following her death in about AD 450, a church was built where she was martyred and the town grew up around it.

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