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Glascoed
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Glascoed () is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is east of Pontypool and west of Usk.
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Place details
- Locality
- Glascoed
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Glasgoed
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Llanbadoc
- Image
- St. Michael's Church, Glascoed - geograph.org.uk - 280362.jpg
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- Commons category
- Glascoed
- historic county
- Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- SO332016
- P12749
- PX domain
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{{Infobox UK place | coordinates = {{coord|51|42|N|2|58|W|region:GB_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki|}display=inline,title}} | country = Wales | official_name = Glascoed | welsh_name = Glasgoed | static_image = Mount Zion Baptist Church - geograph.org.uk - 241559.jpg | static_image_width = | static_image_caption = Mount Zion Baptist Church, Glascoed | community_wales = Llanbadoc | unitary_wales = Monmouthshire | lieutenancy_wales = Gwent | constituency_westminster = Monmouth | post_town = PONTYPOOL | postcode_area = NP | postcode_district = NP4 | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = | population = | population_ref = }} Glascoed () is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is east of Pontypool and west of Usk.
Glascoed is mostly associated with the Royal Ordnance Factory nearby at ROF Glascoed. Llandegveth Reservoir is nearby. Its name is derived from the Welsh words "glas" (meaning gray, green) and "coed" (wood).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glascoed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.