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Llandegfedd Reservoir

Llandegfedd Reservoir is a large 174 hectare water supply and is eight miles north of in . The reservoir is very close to , and , with the boundary between and running through it along the former Sôr Brook.
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Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Reservoir
  • Description: reservoir in Wales
  • Also known as: “Llandegfedd Reservoir and Country Park” and “Llandegveth Reservoir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christchurch (Coed-y-paen) and Pontypool and New Inn railway station.

Church
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Railway station
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated to the south east of town centre between the town and the suburb of , Wales. The station was formerly called Pontypool Road until renamed just Pontypool in 1972 and then to the present name in 1994.

Prison
HM Prison Prescoed is a Category D men's open prison, located in , three miles from in , Wales. Prescoed is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and acts as a satellite prison of the nearby HMP Usk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coed-y-paen and Glascoed.

Hamlet
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , situated at the south-eastern end of Llandegfedd Reservoir, 2.5 miles north-west of . , a Category D prison, is located nearby. The village has one public house, the Carpenters Arms.

Village
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , south east . It is 3 miles east of and 3 miles west of . is mostly associated with the Royal Ordnance Factory nearby at ROF . is nearby.

Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and community directly south east of , within the County Borough of in , within the historic boundaries of . It had a population of 5,986 at the 2011 Census.

Llandegfedd Reservoir

Latitude
51.69159° or 51° 41′ 30″ north
Longitude
-2.9759° or 2° 58′ 33″ west
Elevation
279 feet (85 metres)
Open location code
9C3VM2RF+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 96593213
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­reservoir
Geo­Names ID
3345334
Wiki­data ID
Q6661182
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Llandegfedd Reservoir” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • Dutch: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • French: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • German: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • Italian: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • Spanish: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • Swedish: “Llandegfedd Reservoir”
  • Welsh: “Cronfa a Pharc Gwledig Llandegfedd”
  • Welsh: “Cronfa Llandegfedd”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Llandegfedd Reservoir”. Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.