Pontllanfraith
Sign in to savePontllanfraith () is a large village and community located in the Sirhowy Valley in Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is situated adjacent to the town of Blackwood, with the Sirhowy River passing through both locations. The village includes the communities of the Penllwyn, Springfield and The Bryn. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 8,552.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pontllanfraith
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.official_name
- Pontllanfraith
- UK place.community_wales
- Pontllanfraith
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Caerphilly
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwent
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Caerphilly
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Islwyn
- UK place.post_town
- BLACKWOOD
- UK place.postcode_area
- NP
- UK place.postcode_district
- NP12
- UK place.dial_code
- 01495
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST181959
- UK place.population
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Pontllan-fraith
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Caerphilly County Borough
- Population
- +8404
- Area
- +575.1
- Image
- Gelligroes mill - geograph.org.uk - 736957.jpg
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- P7959
- Monmouthshire
- P12749
- Ejei Khan
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Pontllanfraith () is a large village and community located in the Sirhowy Valley in Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is situated adjacent to the town of Blackwood, with the Sirhowy River passing through both locations. The village includes the communities of the Penllwyn, Springfield and The Bryn. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 8,552.
== Etymology == The name of the village is a combination of ' "bridge" + ' "lake" + ' "speckled", "the bridge of the speckled lake". Although a masculine noun in Modern Welsh, ' "lake" was feminine in the medieval language of the south, hence the mutated feminine form ', rather than unmutated masculine ' as would be found today. The word ' probably refers to speckled sunlight on the water of a pool in the Sirhowy River.