Place:New Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales

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NameNew Tredegar
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates51.717°N 3.234°W
Located inMonmouthshire, Wales     ( - 1974)
Also located inGwent, Wales     (1974 - 1996)
Caerphilly (principal area), Wales     (1996 - )
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New Tredegar (Welsh: Tredegar Newydd) is a former mining community in the Rhymney Valley in Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. Prior to 1974 it was within the historic county of Monmouthshire.

The area contains a number of religious buildings including Saint Dingat's Church and the Presbyterian Church of Wales.

Along with other parts of Rhymney [Valley], New Tredegar was one of the last areas within Monmouthshire to retain the Welsh Language, with native speakers using the language in shops and banks into the 1970s. Welsh only monuments in the local cemetery testify to the strength of the language locally in the first quarter of the 20th century.

From New Tredegar Community Council website:

"Although “tre” or “tref” is more commonly the Welsh word for “town”, it can also be used for “farm” as in this case. Tegyr was the name of the farm from where the Tredegar family took their name (“tegyr” becoming “tegar” over time).
"The Iron Works owned by the family in the Sirhowy valley gave rise to the town of Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent and the new houses built in the next valley became the village of New Tredegar, taking the name of the Colliery that opened there in 1858.
"The area was built on the site of two farms, Aberysibwr and Cwmysibwr and was originally called White Rose. That name was preserved in the railway station White Rose in 1885."

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of New Tredegar from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"TREDEGAR (New), a village on the NE verge of Glamorgan; on the Rhymney and Newport railway, 4 miles SW of Tredegar. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Newport, Monmouth."

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