 View from the back of Adam Street in Abertillery, March 2000. Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri) is a town in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent and the traditional county of Monmouthshire in southern Wales, 16 miles north-west of Newport, originally on the Great Western Railway. Its population rose steeply during the period of mining development in the Rhondda valleys, being 10,846 in the 1891 census and 21,945 ten years later. It lies in the mountainous mining district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach, and the population was traditionally employed in the numerous coalmines, ironworks and tinplate works, now defunct. Farther up the same valley are the mining townships of Nantyglo and Blaina. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and parliamentary constituency in South Wales. ...
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Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056 Area - Total 20,779 km² (3rd in...
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Gwent Police (Welsh: Heddlu Gwent) is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen in southeast Wales. ...
The Preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for ceremonial purposes such as Lieutenancy. ...
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Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is both a principal area and a traditional county in south-east Wales. ...
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Blaenau Gwent is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and parliamentary constituency in South Wales. ...
Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is both a principal area and a traditional county in south-east Wales. ...
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Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is both a principal area and a traditional county in south-east Wales. ...
Glamorgan or Morgannwg is a maritime traditional county of Wales, UK, and was previously a medieval kingdom or principality. ...
Abertillery has a traditional-style town centre and several small schools. Today, its population numbers around 11,000. Noted for its unspoilt rural scenery, Abertillery neighbours the small districts of Aberbeeg and Cwmtillery. The small village of Aberbeeg lies in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, traditional county of Monmouthshire, southern Wales, at grid reference SO213017. ...
Over the past couple of decades the town has been transform from industrial relic into the clean, modernised area it is today - this has largely been achieved due to large amounts of European Union Objective One funding which has helped the town remove unsightly reminders of the industrial past. Many of these areas have been utilised as playing fields, business parks or mixed use land (including the local comprehensive school) A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
A recent windfarm proposal for the mountainside above the community of Cwmtillery has been revived despite opposition to the initial proposal drawing large support. This included a group tagged SCAM (Save Coity and Mynydd James), which led to the application being removed with Blaenau Gwent County Council before being re-submitted on a much smaller scale. The SCAM group is still active in the opposition to the proposal and holds regular meetings in the local area concerning the subject. A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines all in the same location and used for the generation of electricity. ...
Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and parliamentary constituency in South Wales. ...
The town's name is pronounced with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable, ie. it rhymes with "Mary," as in a song made popular by Welsh entertainer Ryan Davies: Ryan Davies (22 January 1937-22 April 1977) was a popular Welsh entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s. ...
"Blodwen and Mary from Abertillery..."
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Coordinates: 51°44′N 3°08′W Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ...
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