The town lies near the Mynydd y Gelli Iron and Bronze Age settlement and stone circle. Famous people from the town include George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy.
A major event in the town's history was the Tonypandy Riot of 1910.
Tonypandy is also a term, coined by a character in Josephine Tey's 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, for faulty collective memory or popular history. The widely-known account of a historical event (such as the Tonypandy Riot), it is argued, may very well be entirely fallacious.
That certainly seems to be the case with the infamous Tonypandy Massacre of 1910.
On November 8 1910 during serious rioting, during which all but two shops in Tonypandy had their windows broken, the police staged what is now known as a baton charge.
He refers to the Shakespearean view of Richard III as "Tonypandy," after the legend of the Tonypandy Massacre.
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