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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pontnewydd like this:
PONTNEWYDD, a hamlet in the S W of Monmouthshire; on the Crumlin canal and the Western Valleys railway, 5¼ miles N by W of Newport. It has a station on the railway, and tin-plate works.
Pontnewydd is now part of TORFAEN District. Click here for graphs and data of how TORFAEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pontnewydd itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pontnewydd, in Torfaen and Monmouthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20412
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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