Alternative Name: Maes-y-cwmwr
Morphology: maes+y+cwmwr
Phonetic: mice-uh-coo-moor
The word "cwmwr" means "footbridge", possibly referring to a local story of a large tree that fell across the river forming a natural bridge over the river Rhymney. The name means "the meadow by the footbridge" and there are examples of the name existing in 1856 and 1903, with the spelling cwmmwr noted in 1885. The double "m" has persisted in the anglicised version of the name, but is not present in the original spelling as the double-m combination does not occur in Welsh.