Tredegar
Sign in to saveTredegar (; ) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in Wales. The relevant wards (Tredegar Central and West, Sirhowy and Georgetown) collectively listed the town's population as 15,103 in the UK 2011 census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Tredegar Clock and Former Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 5487889.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 220
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The town clock and former town hall
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.official_name
- Tredegar
- UK place.community_wales
- Tredegar
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwent
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- UK place.post_town
- TREDEGAR
- UK place.postcode_district
- NP22
- UK place.postcode_area
- NP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01495
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO145095
- UK place.population
- 15,103
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.module
- 240pxMap of the community
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
24 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Industrialisation
- Tredegar Ironworks
- Tredegar Circle
- Welsh language
- Riots
- Foundation
- Governance
- Links with the Labour Party
- Architecture
- Bedwellty House
- Town Clock
- Climate
- Culture and leisure
- Local schools
- Transport
- Carreg Bica Isaf
- Filming location
- Notable people
- Twin towns
- See also
- References
- External links
Tredegar (; ) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in Wales. The relevant wards (Tredegar Central and West, Sirhowy and Georgetown) collectively listed the town's population as 15,103 in the UK 2011 census.
== Toponymy== Tredegar was originally part of the Tredegar Estate, the seat of which was in Coedcernyw, outside Newport, and which extended northwards to include almost the entire length of the Sirhowy Valley. Local historian Oliver Jones (1969) writes that, by c.1803, the new town that had been created after the completion of the Furnace No 3 of the local iron works: