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Blaenau
Gwent is a county borough and parliamentary constituency in South Wales. It
borders the principal areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east,
Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are
Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar.
The borough was formed in 1974 as a local government district, in the new
county of Gwent. It was a merger of the Monmouthshire urban districts of
Abertillery, Ebbw Vale, Nantyglo and Blaine and Tredegar, along with
Brynmawr urban district and the parish of Llanelly in Brecknockshire.
It was reconstituted in 1996 as a county borough,
Abertillery is a town in the
county borough of Blaenau Gwent and the preserved county of Gwent, 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 South Wales, being 10,846 in the 1891 census and 21,945 ten
years later.
Blaina is a small town,
situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and
Abertillery in what was previously the county of Gwent, originally part of
the traditional county of Monmouthshire, and now part of the Blaenau Gwent
area.
Brynmawr is a market town in south Wales. The town, sometimes cited as the
highest town in Wales, situated at 1,250 to 1,500 feet above seal level and
nestled at the head of the South Wales Valleys
Ebbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr river
or River Ebbw in South Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative
centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr
conurbation has a population of roughly 33,000.
Tredegar is a town in the county
borough of Blaenau Gwent, lying on the River Sirhowy in the Sirhowy Valley
in south east Wales. It was formerly in Gwent and prior to that in
Monmouthshire. The historic Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia,
United States was named in honour of the town.
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