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PONTYPOOL , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:northern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Monmouthshire, See also:England, 8 m. N. of See also:Newport, served by the See also:Great Western, See also:London & See also:North-Western, and See also:Rhymney See also:railways. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 6126. It is beautifully situated on an acclivity above the Afon Lwyd, a tributary of the See also:Usk. Its prosperity is due to its situation on the edge of the great See also:coal- and See also:iron-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of Monmouthshire and See also:Glamorganshire. The earliest See also:record of See also:trade in iron is in 1588, but it was See also:developed chiefly in the beginning of the 18th See also:century by the See also:family of Hanbury, the proprietors of Pontypool See also:Park. Pontypool was formerly famed for its japanned goods, invented by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Allwood, a native of See also:Northampton, who settled in the town in the reign of See also:Charles II., but the manufacture has See also:long been transferred elsewhere. The town and neighbourhood contain large forges and iron See also:mills for the manufacture of iron-See also:work and See also:tin-See also:plate. See also:Water communication is afforded with Newport by the Monmouthshire See also:Canal. On the See also:south-See also:east of Pontypool is the urban district of Panteg, including Griffithstown, with a See also:population (1901) of 7484.
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