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Gdsf e miners.[1] By the early 1870s New Mill had become the village of
Miskin, with the village centre being based around the inn, which is now The
Miskin Arms pub.
The name change from New Mill to Miskin was brought about by Judge Gwilym
Williams, and was taken from the medieval commote of Miskin by Williams,
[3] a staunch Welsh patriot, he lived at Miskin Manor[3] (built 1864), a Victorian
L-plan mansion in a neo-Tudor style.[4]
By the 1870s several ironstone mines are evident to the north of the village,
and the village's population continued to grow, as skilled miners rather than
heavy labourers, were needed to extract the ore. The 1871 census reveals the
village's population as 144, with more than half of the miners, immigrants
from the depressed copper mi