Croespenmaen
Croespenmaen is a locality near Crumlin, Caerphilly, Wales. The nearby Croespenmaen Industrial Estate is the site of Unilever's Pot Noodle factory, which became the topic of a 2006 advertising campaign, showing fictitious Pot Noodle mines in Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Caerphilly, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Croes Penmaen”, “Croespen-maen”, “Crospenmaen”, and “Crosspenmaen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oakdale Library and Navigation Colliery.
Navigation Colliery
Photo: M J Roscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Navigation Colliery is a former coal mine in Crumlin, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. Opened in 1911, at its peak it produced 145,000 tonnes of coal a year.
Oakdale Comprehensive School
Oakdale Comprehensive School was a comprehensive school located in the village of Oakdale, Caerphilly Oakdale in Caerphilly county, Wales. The total enrollment was about 660 pupils aged 11 to 16.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakdale and Crumlin.
Oakdale
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oakdale is a large village in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, 9½ miles north of Caerphilly itself, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. Situated in the Sirhowy valley, it is 1.5 miles east of Blackwood, with which it forms a conurbation.
Crumlin
Village
Photo: phil matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crumlin is a town, community and electoral ward in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales. It is situated in the Ebbw River valley, 5 miles west of Pontypool, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
Trinant
Hamlet
Photo: Jessica Aidley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trinant is a village located in the county borough of Caerphilly, within the historic county borders of Monmouthshire. Trinant is part of the community of Crumlin and is located north of the village of Crumlin and west of the Ebbw River.
Croespenmaen
- Category: locality
- Location: Penmaen, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6805° or 51° 40′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.16305° or 3° 9′ 47″ westElevation
837 feet (255 metres)Open location code
9C3RMRJP+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 773572518OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Croespenmaen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Croespenmaen”
- Dutch: “Croespenmaen”
- Irish: “Croespenmaen”
- Japanese: “クロイスペンマイン”
- Welsh: “Croes-pen-maen”
- Welsh: “Croespenmaen”
- Welsh: “Crosspenmaen”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Crospenmaen Post Office and Crumlin STOR.
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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 “Croespenmaen”. Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.