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BLAENAVON, or BLAENAFON

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 32 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLAENAVON, or BLAENAFON , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:northern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Monmouthshire, See also:England, 15 m. N. by W. of See also:Newport, on the See also:Great Western, See also:London & See also:North Western and See also:Rhymney See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 10,869. It lies in the upper-most See also:part of the Afon Lwyd valley, at an See also:elevation exceeding r000 ft., in a See also:wild and mountainous district, on the eastern 32 edge of the great See also:coal and See also:iron See also:mining region of See also:Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. There are very extensive iron and See also:steel See also:works, with blast furnaces and See also:rolling See also:mills in the district, which employ the large See also:industrial See also:population.

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