Torfaen County Borough
Torfaen is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-west and north-west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: principal area of Wales with 92,900 residents
- Description: principal area in south-east Wales
- Also known as: “County Borough of Torfaen”, “Tor-faen”, “Torfaen”, and “Torfaen Borough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pontypool Park and Torfaen County Borough Council.
Pontypool Park
Park
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontypool Park is a 150-acre park in Pontypool, Torfaen, Wales. The park was formerly the grounds of Pontypool House and was laid out in the closing years of the 17th century for John Hanbury, an ironmaster, who is closely associated with Japanware.
Torfaen County Borough Council
Government office
Torfaen County Borough Council is the governing body for Torfaen, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.
Torfaen Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torfaen Museum is a local history museum located in Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales. It is managed by a trust. The museum is situated within the Georgian stable block that once formed part of residence of the Hanbury family – local ironmasters during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontypool and Cwmbran.
Pontypool
Photo: Kev Griffin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontypool is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales. As of 2021, it has a population of 29,062.
Cwmbran
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cwmbran is a new town in Monmouthshire, South Wales. It has a population of about 50,000, and has mainly been constructed since the 1950s.
Abersychan
Town
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abersychan is a town and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, and lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.
Torfaen County Borough
- Categories: borough and district of Wales
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Torfaen County Borough” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورفين”
- Armenian: “Տորվայն”
- Azerbaijani: “Torvayn”
- Basque: “Torfaen”
- Bengali: “টরফেন কাউন্টি বরো”
- Breton: “Torfaen”
- Bulgarian: “Торвайн”
- Bulgarian: “Торфайн”
- Catalan: “Torfaen”
- Cebuano: “Torfaen County Borough”
- Cebuano: “Torfaen”
- Chinese: “Torfaen”
- Chinese: “托法恩”
- Chinese: “托法恩自治市”
- Cornish: “Torr-ven”
- Danish: “Torfaen”
- Dutch: “Torfaen”
- Esperanto: “Torfaen”
- Estonian: “Torfaen”
- Finnish: “Torfaen”
- French: “Borough de la Torfaen”
- French: “Torfaen”
- German: “GB-TOF”
- German: “Tor-faen”
- German: “Torfaen”
- Gujarati: “ટોરફાએન કાઉન્ટી બોરો”
- Irish: “Tor-faen”
- Irish: “Torfaen”
- Italian: “Distretto di contea di Torfaen”
- Italian: “Torfaen”
- Japanese: “トルヴァエン”
- Kannada: “ಟೊರ್ಫಾನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ ಬರೋ”
- Korean: “토르바인”
- Korean: “토파엔 주”
- Korean: “토파엔”
- Ladin: “Torfaen”
- Latvian: “Torvaina”
- Lithuanian: “Torfainas”
- Manx: “Torfaen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Torfaen”
- Northern Frisian: “Torfaen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torfaen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torfaen”
- Norwegian: “Torfaen”
- Persian: “تورواین”
- Polish: “Torfaen”
- Portuguese: “Tor-faen”
- Portuguese: “Torfaen”
- Romanian: “Torfaen”
- Russian: “Торвайн”
- Scots: “Torfaen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Torfaen”
- Slovenian: “GB-TOF”
- Slovenian: “Tor-faen”
- Slovenian: “Torfaen”
- Spanish: “Torfaen”
- Swedish: “Tor-faen”
- Swedish: “Torfaen”
- Tamil: “டோரபாயின் கவுண்டி பாரூக்ஹ்”
- Telugu: “టార్ఫాన్ కౌంటీ బోరో”
- Turkish: “Torfaen”
- Ukrainian: “Торван”
- Urdu: “تورفاین کاؤنٹی بورو”
- Venetian: “Torfaen”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Tor-faen”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Torfaen”
- Welsh: “Tor-faen”
- Welsh: “Torfaen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sowhill and Tranch.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pontypool Park and Pen Coed Parciau.
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