We could not match "BLAENAVON" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 15 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BLAENAVON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABERGAVENNY	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon, containing parts of the parishes of Llanover, Llanwenarth, and Llanfoist; the subdistrict of Aberystruth, co-extensive with the parish	Imperial
  Blaenavon	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon , eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta., SW. Monmouthshire, 5½ miles NW. of Pontypool, pop. of dist. 9451; P.O., T.O.; is a seat	Bartholomew
  BLAENAVON	Monmouthshire	BLAENAVON , a village, a chapelry, and a subdistrict in the district of Abergavenny, Monmouth. The village stands on the Avon	Imperial
  BRYNMAWR	Monmouthshire	Tredegar, a r. station, an inn, a church, and several chapels. A railway from it to Blaenavon was authorised in 1866.	Imperial
  CAPEL-NEWYDD	Monmouthshire	CAPEL-NEWYDD , a chapelry in the NW of Monmouth; 4¾ miles N by W of Pontypool. See Blaenavon.	Imperial
  LLANDAFF	Glamorgan	Blaenavon, Capel-Newydd, Bettws, Cwmyoy, Llanthony, Citra, Llanwenarth-Ultra, and Oldcastle. The deanery of Abergavenny E contains the rectories of Grosmont	Imperial
  LLANFOIST	Monmouthshire	Faith, and is good. A part of the parish, containing a pop. of 1,016, is included in the chapelry of Blaenavon.	Imperial
  Llanover	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon), 4742 ac., pop. 7193; consists of 2 divisions - Lower Llanover , 1877 ac., pop. 322; and Upper Llanover (including part	Bartholomew
  LLANOVER	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon Iron and Coal Company's works. Pop. in 1861, of the part in Blaenavon chapelry, 3,816. Houses, 747. The property	Imperial
  Llanwenarth	Monmouthshire	Citra , 2812 ac. (31 water), pop. 268; and Llanwenarth Ultra , partly in Blaenavon town, 2455 ac. (22 water), pop. 1539.	Bartholomew
  LLANWENARTH	Monmouthshire	which had a pop. of 660 in 1861, is included in the chapelry of Blaenavon, which was constituted in 1860. Charities, £4.	Imperial
  MONMOUTHSHIRE, or MONMOUTH	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon, Nantyglo, Beaufort, Tredegar, and the vales of the Ebbw, the Sirhowy, and the Rumney. The number of collieries in 1859 was 74. The number	Imperial
  MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY	Monmouthshire	Blaenavon; and the Western Valleys railway, from Newport, past Crumlin, to Nantyglo, with a branch from Aberdeen, up Ebbw-vawr	Imperial
  SOUTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAY	Glamorgan	Blaenavon, and other places. The main part, 12¼ miles long, was authorized in 1853; an extension to Britton-Ferry	Imperial
  Trevethin with Pontypool	Monmouthshire	contains the town of Pontypool, the local government district of Abersychan, and part of the local government district of Blaenavon.	Bartholomew

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