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ABERTILLERY

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABERTILLERY , an See also:

urban See also:district in the western See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Monmouthshire, See also:England, 14 m. N.W. of See also:Newport, on the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1891) ro,846; (1901) 21,945. It lies in the mountainous See also:mining district of Monmouthshire and See also:Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach, and the large See also:industrial See also:population is mainly employed in the numerous See also:coal-mines, ironworks and tinplate See also:works. Farther up, the valley are the mining townships of NANTYGLO and BLAINA, forming an urban district with a population (1901) of 13489.

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