Cwm (Blaenau Gwent)
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Cwm Welsh Y Cwm |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 44 ′ N , 3 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 4295 (as of 2011) | ||
| surface | 0.482 km² (Err mi² ) | ||
| Population density | 5,536 / km² | ||
| languages | English Cymric |
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| Post town | EBBW VALE | ||
| ZIP code section | NP23 | ||
| prefix | 01495 | ||
| Part of the country | Wales | ||
| Preserved County | Gwent | ||
| Unitary authority | Blaenau Gwent | ||
| British Parliament | Blaenau Gwent | ||
| Welsh Parliament | Blaenau Gwent | ||
Cwm is a village and community in the Welsh principal area of Blaenau Gwent , which, according to an estimate from 2017, had 2,671 inhabitants in 1,975 households.
geography
Cwm is located a few kilometers south of Ebbw Vale and east of Abertillery on the Ebbw River at an altitude of almost 210 meters and has an area of 0.482 square kilometers.
| Tredegar | Ebbw Vale | Blaina |
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Abertillery |
| Bargoed |
Blackwood Newbridge |
Llanhilleth |
history
Cwm is an old mining town. In 1893 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company Ltd. opened. just under a kilometer south of Cwm the Marine Colliery , which in 1913 employed 2,407 people. In 1935 the mine became the property of Partridge, Jones & John Paton Ltd. until it was nationalized in 1947. In the 1970s it was merged underground with the Six Bells Colliery , with the extraction of coal going through the Marine Colliery . The Marine Colliery was the last underground mine in the Ebbw Valleys until it closed in March 1989. Subsequently, the region became impoverished in the absence of an alternative plan for the region.
Infrastructure
With the Cwm Cemetry located on Cemetery Road , Cwm has its own cemetery. A total of two bus routes stop in the village, running between Ebbw Vale and Abertillery on the one hand and Brynmawr and Garn Lydan on the other .
Thirzah Baptist Chapel , built in 1859 in a simple, Gothic style, was destroyed in a fire in 1917 and rebuilt.
Personalities
- John Quantick (1909–1972), football player
- Victor Spinetti (1929–2012), film and theater actor
- Mark Williams (* 1975), snooker player and three-time world champion
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cwm Ward (as of 2011). Nomis, accessed August 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Cwm. City Population, October 27, 2018, accessed August 2, 2019 .
- ^ Cwm, Blaenau Gwent (NP23 7SR). GetOutside, accessed on August 2, 2019 .
- ^ Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, UK. Mindat , accessed on August 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Mark Easton: The unbearable sadness of the Welsh valleys. British Broadcasting Corporation , June 25, 2013, accessed August 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Our Cemeteries. Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council , accessed August 2, 2019 .
- ^ Cwm, Blaenau Gwent. Bus Times, accessed August 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Thirzah (Tirzah) Baptist Church, Station Terrace, Cwmrhydderch, Ebbw Vale. Coflein , accessed August 2, 2019 .