Wales
Torfaen County Borough
Blaenavon

Blaenavon

Blaenavon is a town in Torfaen, . The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Town with 6,060 residents
  • Description: town in Torfaen, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Blaenafon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Big Pit National Coal Museum and Blaenavon Ironworks.

Museum
Photo: Arafi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is an industrial heritage in Blaenavon, , . A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit Trust.

Museum
Photo: Alan Stanton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales. The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide.

Library
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Varteg and Cwmavon.

Village
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is a village in the county borough of in .

Village
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is a hamlet about 2 miles south of Blaenavon and 4 miles north of . The hamlet is part of the community of in the county borough of in south east Wales, and is within the boundaries of the historic county of .

Locality
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a village in , Wales. It was declared a slum in 1960 and demolished in 1963. The main employment was provided by nearby limestone quarries and by the iron works in Blaenavon.

Blaenavon

Latitude
51.7728° or 51° 46′ 22″ north
Longitude
-3.0844° or 3° 5′ 4″ west
Population
6,060
Elevation
1,096 feet (334 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BVN
Open location code
9C3RQWF8+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260756621
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655413
Wiki­data ID
Q804282
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Blaenavon” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Blaenafon”
  • Basque: “Blaenafon”
  • Basque: “Blaenavon”
  • Bengali: “ব্লেনাভন”
  • Breton: “Blaenafon”
  • Bulgarian: “Блайнавон”
  • Catalan: “Blaenafon”
  • Catalan: “Blaenavon”
  • Cebuano: “Blaenavon (lungsod)”
  • Cebuano: “Blaenavon”
  • Chinese: “Blaenavon”
  • Chinese: “布莱纳文”
  • Chinese: “布雷納凡”
  • Chinese: “布雷纳凡”
  • Cornish: “Blaenafon”
  • Croatian: “Blaenafon”
  • Croatian: “Blaenavon”
  • Czech: “Blaenafon”
  • Czech: “Blaenavon”
  • Danish: “Blaenafon”
  • Danish: “Blaenavon”
  • Dutch: “Blaenafon”
  • Dutch: “Blaenavon”
  • Finnish: “Blaenafon”
  • Finnish: “Blaenavon”
  • French: “Blaenafon”
  • French: “Blaenavon”
  • Galician: “Blaenafon”
  • Galician: “Blaenavon”
  • Georgian: “ბლაენავონი”
  • German: “Blaenafon”
  • German: “Blaenavon”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેનવૉન”
  • Hebrew: “בלנאבון”
  • Hebrew: “בלנאפון”
  • Hebrew: “בלנפון”
  • Hindi: “ब्लेनावों”
  • Hungarian: “Blaenafon”
  • Hungarian: “Blaenavon ipartörténeti műemlékei”
  • Hungarian: “Blaenavon”
  • Irish: “Blaenafon”
  • Italian: “Blaenafon”
  • Italian: “Blaenavon”
  • Japanese: “ブレナヴォン”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೇನಾವೊನ್”
  • Korean: “블레이네이번”
  • Lithuanian: “Blaenavonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blaenavon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blaenafon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blaenavon”
  • Norwegian: “Blaenavon”
  • Persian: “بلین‌آون”
  • Polish: “Blaenafon”
  • Polish: “Blaenavon”
  • Portuguese: “Blaenafon”
  • Portuguese: “Blaenavon”
  • Russian: “Блайнавон”
  • Russian: “Блэнавон”
  • Scots: “Blaenafon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blaenafon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blaenafon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blaenavon”
  • Slovak: “Blaenafon”
  • Slovak: “Blaenavon”
  • Slovenian: “Blaenafon”
  • Slovenian: “Blaenavon”
  • Spanish: “Blaenafon”
  • Spanish: “Blaenavon”
  • Swedish: “Blaenafon”
  • Swedish: “Blaenavon (ort)”
  • Swedish: “Blaenavon”
  • Tamil: “பிளேனாவோன்”
  • Telugu: “బ్లెనావన్”
  • Turkish: “Blaenafon”
  • Turkish: “Blaenavon”
  • Ukrainian: “Блайневон”
  • Urdu: “بلایناوون”
  • Vietnamese: “Blaenafon”
  • Vietnamese: “Blaenavon”
  • Welsh: “Blaenafon”

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