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Drafts/Notes edit

Listed buildings/scheduled monuments edit

Grade I listed buildings in various areas - used in See Also sections

And now the Grade II* related lists

And now the Scheduled Monuments in related lists

Pontypool Rural District Council edit

Created 1894

Intro edit

The community of Llanyrafon includes the housing estate of Llanyrafon and the northern part of Llanfrechfa. And a church.

History edit

First mention - the farm. Also effectively manor for parish of Llanfrechfa, into Llanfrechfa Lower (when did it disappear?)

Llanyrafon mill

Small farms

Toll house

Bath house

Llanyrafon house

Llanfrechfa Grange

White Hall

Housing on Caerleon Road

1949 Cwmbran New Town

1950s new estate/school/extending Caerleon Road

Shops built a bit later?

1970s by-pass, Police HQ, and county hall, boating lake, golf course, hotel commodore?

Llanyrafon Farm restored and opened. Boating lake refurbished. Hay meadow and community orchard old county hall demolished.

Amenities edit

Local groups edit

Local government edit

TCBC edit

For elections to TCBC, two electoral wards:

  • Llanyrafon East
  • Llanyrafon West

These replaced the old wards:

  • Llanyrafon North
  • Llanyrafon East

Last election

Croesyceiliog and Llanyrafon Community Council edit

Croesyceiliog and Llanyrafon Community Council. Two community wards (north and south) - not the same as old electoral wards.

Buildings edit

  • Llanyrafon Farm
  • Llanyrafon Mill
  • Llanfrechfa Grange
  • Gwent Police Headquarters
  • Llanyrafon house
  • Cwm Aaron/Cwm Heron farmhouse
  • Waun-y-pwll farmhouse


And no longer:

  • Former Gwent County Hall (now demolished)
  • Bath house
  • Toll house
  • Whitehall ??

Old roads edit

Newport to Pontypool turnpike

Transport edit

  • Road
  • Rail
  • Bus

Electoral wards edit

TCBC North and South, now West and East.

Community council edit

Croesy and Llanyrafon (North and South)

Listed buildings edit

  • Stirrup Cup Country Club?

Torfaen Population Reference edit

The population of Torfaen is 92,860.(2022).[1]


Hillfort map - monmouthshire edit

 
 
Blackliff Wood
 
Gaer Hill Camp
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Hillforts in Monmouthshire, Wales.
 =Prehistoric  =Roman  =Early Medieval
 =Medieval  =Post-Medieval/Modern

List of re-useable references edit

All list of references for easy cutting and pasting into other pages.

Chapter 4 of a County History of MonmouthshireElliott, John (2011). "Chapter 4: The Iron and Steel Industry". In Williams, Chris; Williams, Sian Rhiannon (eds.). The Gwent County History. Volume 4: Industrial Monmouthshire, 1780–1914. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2365-6.

Chris Barber's EASTERN VALLEY The Story of Torfaen (with an example page number).[2]: 283 

Mike Salter's book on churches (with embedded page number).[3]

The Buildings of Wales (Pevsner series) Gwent/Monmouthshire.[4] This book is available on the web - books.google.co.uk/books?id=knRf4U60QjcC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=new+county+hall+for+Gwent&source=bl&ots=1zRDUIJO6s&sig=rucdALrQzZKjt_fvdArTZ2JKJLU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dfymUqHLIYGI7Ab03IGABg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=new county hall for Gwent&f=false

Copyright?


Reference to London Gazette (with a page range, accessdate, and some text in the ref).[5]

Fred Hando's Monmouthshire Sketch Book.[6]

A reference to a map at the National Library of Scotlands online collection of maps.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022". Office for National Statistics. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  2. ^ Barber, Chris (1999). EASTERN VALLEY The Story of Torfaen (1st ed.). Abergavenny: Blorenge Books. ISBN 1 872730 23 X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ Salter, Mike (2002). The Old Parish Churches of Gwent, Glamorgan & Gower (2nd ed.). Malvern: Folly Publications. p. 25. ISBN 1-871-73160-7.
  4. ^ Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales (1st ed.). London: Yale University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-300-09630-5.
  5. ^ CDC CPO No. 59 (Henllys Expansion) "No. 48087". The London Gazette. 1 Febuary 1980. {{cite magazine}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Hando, Fred J. (1954). Monmouthshire Sketch Book. Newport: R. H. Johns. p. 62.
  7. ^ Ordnance Survey ST39 Sheet 31/39 (Map). 1:25000. Provisional 1st Series. Ordnance Survey. 1951. Retrieved 7 December 2013.

Season's Greetings (Cyfarchion y Tymor) edit

 

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Pick and choose according to taste: Have a Wassailing Winter Solstice (Gwasaela Heuldro'r Gaeaf), Merry Christmas (Nadolig Llawen), Happy New Year (Blwyddyn Newydd Dda), or Grey Mare (Mari Lwyd) walkabout.

May your celebration go with you. Robevans123 (talk) 20:20, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


Regional Local Resilience Forums edit

Moved draft to main space at Emergency planning in Wales with this.

50 mpg‑imp (42 mpg‑US)*

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