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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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TREDEGAR, a town, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Bedwelty parish and district, Monmouth. The town stands on the river Sirhowy, and on the Vale of Sirhowy and the Merthyr and Abergavenny railways, 12½ miles WSW of Abergavenny; was merely an insignificant village so late as 1800; grew to importance around iron-works, established by the Homfrays; acquired a tram railway southward, for the conveyance of minerals, so early as 1802; carries on great industry in the working and exporting of coal and iron; presents an appearance repulsive to lovers of tidiness and good scenery; comprises a central square and radiating streets; and has a head post-office,† two r. stations with telegraph, a banking office, a town hall, a market house, a good modern church, eight dissenting chapels, a weekly market on Saturday, and three annual fairs. Pop. in 1851, 8,305; in 1861, 9,383. Houses, 1,720. The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop. in 1861, 20,318. Houses, 3,643. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £300. Patron, the Incumbent of Bedwelty. The sub-district comprises all the Manmoeland Ushlawrcoed sections of Bedwelty parish. Pop. in 1851, 24,544; in 1861, 28,548. Houses, 5,140.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a town, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Tredegar CP Bedwellty RegD/PLU Monmouthshire AncC |
| Place: | Tredegar |
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