Coed-y-paen
Coed-y-paen is a village in South Wales, situated at the south-eastern end of Llandegfedd Reservoir, 2.5 miles north-west of Llangybi. HM Prison Prescoed, a Category D prison, is located nearby. The village has one public house, the Carpenters Arms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Christchurch (Coed-y-paen) and Llandegfedd Reservoir.
Llandegfedd Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandegfedd Reservoir is a large 174 hectare water supply reservoir and is eight miles north of Newport in south Wales. The reservoir is very close to Pontypool, Cwmbran and Usk, with the boundary between Monmouthshire and Torfaen running through it along the former Sôr Brook.
Prescoed Prison
Prison
HM Prison Prescoed is a Category D men's open prison, located in Coed-y-paen, three miles from Usk in Monmouthshire, 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 Llandegveth and Glascoed.
Llandegveth
Hamlet
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandegveth, also known by its Welsh name Llandegfedd, is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is located between Cwmbran, in Torfaen, and Usk in rural Monmouthshire. Llandegveth is situated 2 miles south of Coed-y-paen.
Glascoed
Village
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Glascoed is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is 3 miles east of Pontypool and 3 miles west of Usk. Glascoed is mostly associated with the Royal Ordnance Factory nearby at ROF Glascoed. Llandegveth Reservoir is nearby. Glascoed is situated 2 miles north of Coed-y-paen.
New Inn
Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Inn is a village and community directly south east of Pontypool, within the County Borough of Torfaen in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It had a population of 5,986 at the 2011 Census. New Inn is situated 2 miles west of Coed-y-paen.
Coed-y-paen
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.68151° or 51° 40′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.9632° or 2° 57′ 48″ westElevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
9C3VM2JP+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 29427080OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Coed-y-paen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coed-y-paen”
- Dutch: “Coed-y-paen”
- Portuguese: “Coed-y-paen”
- Welsh: “Coed-y-paen”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Carpenters Arms and Llandegfedd Watersports Centre.
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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 “Coed-y-paen”. Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.