Further Reading
- An overview of the history of Crynant can be found the book The village of Crynant: The place and its people, by Stanley Cadogan Lodwig (published posthumously by Eileen and Deborah Lodwig in 2008)
- Pictures of Crynant through the ages can be found in the Now and Then: Upper Dulais and Swansea Valleys series of books by W. T. Davies.
- Stars on a Saturday Afternoon by David Alexander", 1990, being a history of Crynant RFC.
- On a Summer Morning by W. V. Thomas and A. J. Thomas, prepared by I. W. and P. V. Thomas, 2007, this being an account of four Crynant soldiers who were killed in the battle for Mametz Wood in 1916.
- Facing The Threat by W. V. Thomas, prepared by I. W. Thomas and P. V. Thomas, 2008 and 2009, a tribute to the people of the village during the Second World War, 1939-1945.
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