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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 700 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRYNMAWR , a See also:

market See also:town of Brecknockshire, See also:Wales, 141 M. S.E. of Brecknock and 156 m. from See also:London by See also:rail. Pop, of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 6833. It is on the London & See also:North-Western and See also:Rhymney See also:joint railway connecting Rhymney and See also:Abergavenny, being also a junction for a See also:branch See also:line to See also:Pontypool via See also:Blaenavon, and the See also:terminus of the See also:Great Western line from See also:Newport via Nantyglo. The town owes its origin to the development during the first See also:half of the 19th See also:century of See also:iron-See also:works at the upper ends of the valleys that converge in its neighbourhood, its site being previously known as Waun Helygen (See also:Willow-See also:tree See also:Common). The Nantyglo ironworks afford occupation to large See also:numbers of the inhabitants of Brynmawr. Both See also:coal and iron ore were formerly worked, but the coal is exhausted and the ore unsuitable for See also:modern processes. Brynmawr was formed into an ecclesiastical See also:parish in 1875 out of portions of the See also:civil parishes of See also:Llanelly and Llangattock. In 1894 this was formed into an urban district, which was enlarged in loco by the addition of a portion of the parish of Aberystruth in See also:Monmouthshire, the whole being at the same See also:time consolidated into a civil parish.

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