Sport and Leisure
Crynant is home to Crynant RFC a rugby union club with over a hundred years of history.
The Gradon, located on the main road slightly north of Creunant Business park, is the last remaining pub in the village, the Kingfisher, on the northern extreme of the village where the road runs across the common and down into the Swansea valley, having recently closed. The oldest pub, the Red Lion, also recently closed having been in business since 1850. The Gradon used to be known as the British Legion. Its unusual name was derived from the names Grant and Donna, the children of a previous owner.
There is now only one club in the village still open, which is the rugby club. The Welfare has recently closed down, it was once a miners working mans club has seen considerable decline since the closure of the coal mines in the 1980s.
The village once hosted a carnival every year, but with the demise of coal mining, that now has stopped. During World War II it was famous for the pantomimes which it produced every year, and which toured the surrounding villages.
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