Cwmbran

Cwmbran is another town in Wales. Existing in the memorable limits of Monmouthshire, it shapes some portion of the region ward of Torfaen. Cwmbran was set up in 1949 to give new work openings in the south eastern part of the South Wales Coalfield. Cwmbran implies Crow Valley. Cwmbran is twinned with Bruchsal in Germany and Carbonne in France.

Containing the towns of Old Cwmbran, Pontnewydd, Upper Cwmbran, Croesyceiliog, Llantarnam and Llanyrafon, its populace had developed to 48,535 by 2011. This makes it the 6th biggest urban zone in Wales. Cwmbran is another town which was set up in 1949 to give new work openings in the south eastern part of the South Wales Coalfield.There is proof that Neolithic and Bronze Age individuals utilized the territory, with the Iron Age Silures clan additionally possessing the district before being curbed by the Roman armies based at close-by Usk and Caerleon.

Around 1179, Hywel, Lord of Caerleon gave an endowment of cash and land to establish the Cistercian monastery at Llantarnam. At the disintegration of the religious communities by Henry VIII the monastery was shut and was purchased by a progression of well off landowners. By the 18th century the convent had gone into the responsibility for Blewitt family, who were to wind up key figures in the early industrialisation of Cwmbran.