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Cwm (from Welsh: Y Cwm, transl. The Valley) is a former coal mining village, community and electoral ward three miles (4.8 km) south of Ebbw Vale in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. In the far north of the community lies Waunlwyd .
Cwm is a former coal mining village three miles south of Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire . Contents. 1 Etymology. 2 History. 3 Coal Industry. 3.1 Marine Colliery. 4 Transport. 5 Sport. 6 Notable people. 7 References. 8 Outside links. Etymology.
Cwm is a former coal mining village, community and electoral ward three miles south of Ebbw Vale in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.
Cwmyoy is an extensive rural parish in Monmouthshire, Wales (Welsh: Cwm Iou, for the valley and parish; Welsh: Cwm-iou, for the village). The standard Welsh name is Cwm Iau or Cwm-iau.
The name of the town in Welsh means "valley (cwm) of the crow (brân)",). Cwmbran was the name of one of several villages located in the valley, which had grown up around the tinplate works of the Cwmbran Iron Company.
Monmouthshire, county of southeastern Wales. The present county of Monmouthshire borders England to the east, the River Severn estuary to the south, the county boroughs of Newport, Torfaen, and Blaenau Gwent to the west, and the county of Powys to the north.
Cwm Monmouthshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cwm like this: CWM, a railway station in Monmouth; on the Beaufort branch of the Western Valleys railway, 18¼ miles NW by N of Newport.
