Blaina
Sign in to savethumb|right|275px|Until 1962 Blaina had a station on the Great Western Railway. These are the remains in 1966 Blaina ( ) is a town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the County Borough of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire. The place name is derived from the Welsh word '''' "uplands". As of 2011, the town has a population of 4,808.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.welsh_name
- Y Blaenau
- UK place.official_name
- Blaina
- UK place.population
- 4,808
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwent
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.post_town
- ABERTILLERY
- UK place.postcode_district
- NP13
- UK place.postcode_area
- NP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01495
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO1908
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thumb|right|275px|Until 1962 Blaina had a station on the Great Western Railway. These are the remains in 1966 Blaina ( ) is a town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the County Borough of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire. The place name is derived from the Welsh word '''' "uplands". As of 2011, the town has a population of 4,808.
==Welsh language== According to the 2011 Census, 6.3% of the ward's 4,808 (303 residents) resident-population can speak, read, and write Welsh. This is above the county's figure of 5.5% of 67,348 (3,705 residents) who can speak, read, and write Welsh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blaina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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