Brynmawr
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Brynmawr ( , ; ) is a market town, community and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. The town, sometimes cited as the highest town in Wales, is situated at above sea level at the head of the South Wales Valleys. It grew with the development of the coal mining and iron industries in the early 19th century. Until the reorganisation of local authorities in 1974, Brynmawr was administered as part of the county of Brecknockshire.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.official_name
- Brynmawr
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwent
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- UK place.post_town
- EBBW VALE
- UK place.postcode_district
- NP23
- UK place.postcode_area
- NP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01495
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO185115
- UK place.population
- 5,530
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Brynmawr market square - geograph.org.uk - 688053.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Market Square and Market Hall Cinema
- UK place.module
- 250pxMap of the community
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Bryn-mawr
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Q596885
- Population
- 5245
- Area
- 582.3
- Image
- Beaufort St, Brynmawr - geograph.org.uk - 2800369.jpg
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- postal code
- NP23
- Commons category
- Brynmawr
- OS grid reference
- SO185115
- historic county
- Monmouthshire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Ursa Major
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Welsh language
- History
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Population
- Commerce and local economy
- Places of interest
- Sport and leisure
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Brynmawr ( , ; ) is a market town, community and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. The town, sometimes cited as the highest town in Wales, is situated at above sea level at the head of the South Wales Valleys. It grew with the development of the coal mining and iron industries in the early 19th century. Until the reorganisation of local authorities in 1974, Brynmawr was administered as part of the county of Brecknockshire.
==Welsh language== According to the 2011 Census, 6.0% of the ward's 5,530 (332 residents) resident population could speak, read, and write Welsh. This was above the county's proportion of 5.5% of 67,348 (3,705 residents). Until 2010, when the school relocated to a new building in Blaina, the town had the only Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Gymraeg Brynmawr, in Blaenau Gwent; the school had 310 pupils ranging from nursery to year 6.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brynmawr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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