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Torfaen County Borough

Fairwater

Fairwater is a community and suburb of in the county borough of , in south east Wales, and was built by the Cwmbran Development Corporation between 1963 and 1966.
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  • Type: Suburb with 10,100 residents
  • Description: suburb of Cwmbran and a community in Torfaen County Borough in south east Wales
  • Also known as: “Fairwater, Torfaen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cwmbran Stadium and Cwmbran railway station.

Stadium
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium and sports complex in , . The stadium holds 10,500 people and the main outdoor arena consists of an athletics track surrounding a 4g football pitch. It is the home ground of Cwmbran Town F.C.

Railway station
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in the northeast of town centre, within five minutes' walking distance. It is part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail and is managed by Transport for Wales, who operate all trains serving it.

Arts center
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located within a 19th-century Victorian manor house in Cwmbrân and is the regional centre for the applied arts in south-east Wales.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cwmbran and Pontypool.

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is a new town in , . It has a population of about 50,000, and has mainly been constructed since the 1950s.

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is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of , within the historic boundaries of in . As of 2021, it has a population of 29,062.

Town
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is a town in the and within the historic boundaries of in south-east Wales. It is split into two communities; East and West. is situated 3 miles southwest of Fairwater.

Fairwater

Latitude
51.6463° or 51° 38′ 47″ north
Longitude
-3.0485° or 3° 2′ 55″ west
Population
10,100
Elevation
682 feet (208 metres)
Open location code
9C3RJXW2+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 737380149
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7293956
Wiki­data ID
Q5430902
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Fairwater” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Fairwater”
  • Bengali: “ফেয়ারওয়াটার”
  • Breton: “Fairwater”
  • Catalan: “Fairwater”
  • Cebuano: “Fairwater (komunidad sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Wales, Torfaen County Borough)”
  • Cebuano: “Fairwater”
  • Chinese: “Fairwater”
  • Chinese: “菲尔瓦德”
  • Chinese: “菲爾瓦德”
  • Cornish: “Fairwater”
  • French: “Fairwater”
  • German: “Fairwater”
  • Gujarati: “ફેરવોટર”
  • Irish: “Fairwater”
  • Japanese: “フェアウォ―ター”
  • Kannada: “ಫೇರ್ವಾಟರ್”
  • Korean: “페어워터”
  • Lithuanian: “Feirvoteris”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fairwater”
  • Persian: “فیر واتر”
  • Portuguese: “Fairwater”
  • Russian: “Фейрвотер”
  • Spanish: “Fairwater”
  • Swedish: “Fairwater, Torfaen”
  • Swedish: “Fairwater”
  • Tamil: “பாயர்வாட்டர்”
  • Telugu: “ఫెయిర్ వాటర్”
  • Urdu: “فایرواتیر”
  • Welsh: “Fairwater, Torfaen”
  • Welsh: “Fairwater”

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