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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:
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:
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