Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: principal area of Wales with 67,000 residents
- Description: principal area in south-east Wales
- Also known as: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough” and “County Borough of Blaenau Gwent”
- Neighbors: Powys
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station and Mynydd Carn-y-cefn.
Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jeremai Smith, CC BY 2.0.
Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales. The station opened on 6 February 2008 when services to and from Cardiff Central commenced after 46 years of being a freight-only line.
Mynydd Carn-y-cefn
Peak
Photo: Peter Standing, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mynydd Carn-y-cefn is the name given to the broad ridge of high ground between the Ebbw Vale and the valley of the Ebbw Fach in the Valleys region of South Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr.
Ebbw Vale
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ebbw Vale is in Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire. It is the largest town in Blaenau Gwent, and is the home of its administration centre.
Brynmawr
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brynmawr is a market town, community and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. The town, sometimes cited as the highest town in Wales, is situated at 1,250 to 1,500 feet above sea level at the head of the South Wales Valleys.
Tredegar
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tredegar is a small industrial town in Monmouthshire, South Wales. It is by no means a major tourist destination, but it does have a certain off-the-beaten-path charm and is located on the edge of Brecon Beacons National Park, making it a fine base for hiking.
Blaenau Gwent
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Blaenau Gwent” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بليناو غونت”
- Basque: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Bengali: “ব্লেইনউ গ্যেন্ট কাউন্টি বরো”
- Breton: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Bulgarian: “Блайнай Гуент”
- Catalan: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Cebuano: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Chinese: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Chinese: “布莱奈格温特”
- Chinese: “布莱耐格温特”
- Chinese: “布萊奈格温特”
- Chinese: “布萊奈格溫特”
- Cornish: “Bleynow Gwens”
- Danish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Dutch: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Estonian: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Finnish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- French: “Blaenau Gwent”
- German: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough”
- German: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેનો ગ્વેંટ કાઉન્ટી બોરો”
- Irish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Italian: “distretto di contea di Blaenau Gwent”
- Italian: “Distretto di contea di Blaenau Gwent”
- Japanese: “ブライナイ・グエント”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೇನೌ ಗ್ವೆಂಟ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ ಬರೋ”
- Korean: “블라이나이궨트 주”
- Korean: “블라이나이궨트”
- Ladin: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Latvian: “Blainaiguenta”
- Lithuanian: “Blainai Gventas”
- Manx: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Northern Frisian: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Norwegian: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Persian: “بلاینای گونت”
- Polish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Portuguese: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Romanian: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Russian: “Блайнай-Гвент”
- Russian: “Блайнай-Гуэнт”
- Scots: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Slovenian: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough”
- Slovenian: “Grofijski okraj Blaenau Gwent”
- Spanish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Swedish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Tamil: “பிளேனு குவென்ட் கவுண்டி பாரூக்ஹ்”
- Telugu: “బ్లెనావు గ్వెంట్ కౌంటీ బోరో”
- Turkish: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Ukrainian: “Бланау-Гвент”
- Urdu: “بلایناو جوینت کاؤنٹی بورو”
- Welsh: “Blaenau Gwent”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Blaenau Gwent”
- Western Panjabi: “بلیناؤ گونٹ”
- “Blaenau Gwent”
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