A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BLAINA, a village, with iron-works, in Ebbw-Vale, Monmouth; on the Western Valleys railway, 2 miles SSE of Nantyglo. It has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Tredegar. A church, in the Norman style, was built here in 1845. The circumjacent tract of country is highly picturesque.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, with iron-works" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Monmouthshire AncC |
| Place: | Blaina |
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