On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:07:07 EST, <Donwy(a)aol.com > wrote:
Can someone help me out...has Cwm, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar always been
of
Glamorgan? What county would it have been from 1800 to 1850?is now?
The places you mention have never been in Glamorgan. They were all in
Monmouthshire until 1974, when it became Gwent. Gwent was split up into
five unity authorities in 1996. Tredegar, Cwm, and Ebbw Vale - along with
Abertillery, Nantyglo and Blaina - are now in the county borough of Blaenau
Gwent, the same name as this list!
You may like to know that the other unity authorities that replaced Gwent
are :
CAERPHILLY/CAERFFILI * Comprising Caerphilly and the Rhymney valley, (which
used to be over the border in Glamorgan ) combined with the former Gwent
borough of Islwyn, i.e the Blackwood, Oakdale, Pontllanfraith, Abercarn and
Risca areas.
TORFAEN * The Pontypool area, including Blaenafon and Cwmbran.
The County Borough of NEWPORT. (Now a city!)
Cheers,
Glyn Hale
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