Trevethin
Sign in to saveTrevethin or Trefethin () is a suburb of Pontypool and a community in Torfaen, Wales. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward of Trevethin and Penygarn, which elects councillors to Torfaen County Borough Council. It is in the historic county of Monmouthshire.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Cadoc's Church, Trevethin - geograph.org.uk - 399101.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Cadoc's Church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO 282 022
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.welsh_name
- Trefddyn
- UK place.official_name
- Trevethin
- UK place.community_wales
- Trevethin
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Torfaen
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Gwent
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Torfaen
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Torfaen
- UK place.post_town
- PONTYPOOL
- UK place.postcode_district
- NP4
- UK place.postcode_area
- NP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01495
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 4.98
- UK place.population
- 5,147
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
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Trevethin or Trefethin () is a suburb of Pontypool and a community in Torfaen, Wales. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward of Trevethin and Penygarn, which elects councillors to Torfaen County Borough Council. It is in the historic county of Monmouthshire.
==History and amenities== Trevethin was a small village that was the seat of the parish of Trevethin in ancient Abergavenny Hundred. It has become a modern suburb, as economic growth led to a construction boom surrounding the village in the 1960s and '70s. Today Trevethin almost imperceptibly merges with nearby Penygarn. In 2005 it was announced that the district's local school, Trevethin Community School, was to close. Pupils were moved to Abersychan comprehensive school and West Monmouth School. The upper-school buildings have since been demolished and a housing estate built on the land. In 1991, Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw, a Welsh-medium education secondary school, moved to Trevethin, on the former lower-school site, but in modern buildings. This school has now become a 3-18 school called Ysgol Gymraeg Gwynllyw.