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A vision of Britain through time
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NANTYGLO, a village and a chapelry in Aberystruth parish, Monmouth. The village stands at the head of Ebbw-fach vale, and at the terminus of the Western Valleys railway, amid a wild tract of upland country, ¾of a mile S of the boundary with Brecon, and 21½ N N W of Newport; is a seat or centre of extensive ironworks, comprising seven furnaces and enormous rolling and puddling forges; and has a railway station with telegraph, a post-office under Tredegar, a good inn, a modernchurch, and a Calvinistic Methodist chapel, in the Italianstyle, erected in 1863. Its aspect, partly from the-dreary character of the environs, still more from the smoke and dirt of the ironworks, is exceedingly uninviting. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £10, 980. Pop. in 1861, 4, 450. Houses, 853. The property is divided among a few; and that of the iron-works belongs to the Bailey family. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Aberystruth CP/AP Monmouthshire AncC |
| Place: | Nantyglo |
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