Risca
Risca is a town in the Caerphilly County Borough and within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in south-east Wales. It is split into two communities; Risca East and Risca West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rudi Winter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Risca Library and Moriah Baptist Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontymister and Lower Machen.
Lower Machen
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Machen is a small hamlet at the very western edge of the city of Newport, South Wales. It is adjacent to the A468 road, south-east of Machen in the county borough of Caerphilly. Lower Machen is situated 2 miles southwest of Risca.
Wattsville
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wattsville is a small village in the Sirhowy Valley, eight miles north west of Newport, built in the 20th century for accommodation for mine workers. Wattsville is situated 2 miles west of Risca.
Risca
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Risca, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.61195° or 51° 36′ 43″ northLongitude
-3.09648° or 3° 5′ 47″ westPopulation
15,000Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RSCOpen location code
9C3RJW63+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 376902502OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Risca” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Risca”
- Basque: “Risca”
- Breton: “Rhisga”
- Bulgarian: “Риска”
- Cebuano: “Risca”
- Chinese: “里斯卡”
- Dutch: “Risca”
- Galician: “Rhisga”
- Irish: “Rhisga”
- Italian: “Risca (Regno Unito)”
- Italian: “Risca”
- Japanese: “リスカ”
- Persian: “ریسکا”
- Spanish: “Risca”
- Swedish: “Risca”
- Ukrainian: “Ріска”
- Welsh: “Rhisga”
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