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This made South Wales the most important part of Britain for ironmaking until the middle of the 19th century. Second, from 1850 until the outbreak of the First World War, the South Wales Coalfield was developed to supply steam coal and anthracite. [1] The South Wales Valleys hosted Britain's only mountainous coalfields. [2]
West Wales and the Valleys is a UK International Territorial Level 2 statistical region covering the western areas of Wales and the South Wales Valleys. Created as part of the Eurostat 's Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), it was used to by the European Union (EU) to deliver the European Regional Development Fund to areas ...
Wales: UKL West Wales and The Valleys: UKL1 Isle of Anglesey: UKL11 Gwynedd: UKL12 Conwy and Denbighshire: UKL13 South West Wales (Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire) UKL14 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff) UKL15 Gwent Valleys (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Torfaen) UKL16 Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot: UKL17 Swansea ...
The Craig Cerrig Gleisiad circular ridge and valley walk is a pleasant alternative. This steep glacier-carved valley is covered with scented hawthorn, lichen and bilberry, and is a haven for birdlife.
English: Three Maps of Wales (mountains, hills and valleys) in the reception area of the Senedd building, Cardiff Bay. Date: 21 November 2022, 14:19:38: Source: Own work:
Rhondda / ˈ r ɒ n ð ə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr, 'large') and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach, 'small') – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and the ...
West Wales. West Wales (Welsh: Gorllewin Cymru Welsh pronunciation: [gɔrɬɛuɪn kɨːmrɨ]) is a region of Wales.. It has various definitions, either covering Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, which historically comprised the Welsh principality of Deheubarth, and an alternative definition is to include Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, but exclude Ceredigion.
This includes devolved institutions, such as Visit Wales, [2] Natural Resources Wales, [3] and the Welsh Government itself, [4] [5] [6] using different sets of Wales' regions. Wales is most commonly sub-divided into between two and four regions, with a North–South divide, and North, Mid, South East and South West division being common.