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Torfaen is a unitary authority in South East Wales. ... Cwmbran Central: 9,947 [4] 12 Fairwater [c] 11,632 [5] 11 Henllys: 2,682 [6] 14 Llantarnam: 4,125 [7] 15 ...
Thornhill is a large council estate on the western side of Cwmbran, Torfaen in Wales. [1] It is adjacent to the suburbs of Greenmeadow and Upper Cwmbran and represents the most economically-improved area of Cwmbran and in the wider Torfaen area.
The college operates from five campuses [5] – City of Newport, Crosskeys, Usk, Blaenau Gwent Learning Zone in Ebbw Vale, [6] and the Torfaen Learning Zone (a £24 million purpose-built campus, in Cwmbran). [7] There are also two 'Learn-IT' centres, based in Monmouth and Cwmbrân.
The borough council was created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as a lower-tier district council with borough status. Gwent County Council provided county-level services for the area. [4]
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Cwmbran was designated as a new town under the New Towns Act 1946, with the aim of housing new workers to the growing post-war industries that landscaped the valley.After the Second World War, Cwmbran's population was 12,000 - living in the original settlements surrounding what is now known as Old Cwmbran; Upper Cwmbran, Pontnewydd, Pontrhydyrun, Forge Hammer, Croes-y-ceiliog, Oakfield ...
Torfaen (/ t ɔːr ˈ v aɪ n /; [tɔrˈvaɪn]) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-west and north-west.
The Cwmbran Centre, renamed M Cwmbran from March 2024, [2] is a shopping centre, office and leisure complex in the town of Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales. It was formerly named Cwmbran Shopping, then renamed Cwmbran Centre on 3 July 2017.