New Tredegar (Welsh: Tredegar Newydd) is a former mining town and community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
New Tredegar
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|---|---|
 Terraced houses in New Tredegar | |
  New Tredegar Location within Caerphilly | |
| Population | 4,966 |
| OS grid reference | SO143032 |
| Principal area | |
| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NEW TREDEGAR |
| Postcode district | NP24 |
| Dialling code | 01443 |
| Police | Gwent |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
New Tredegar is now home to 'The Winding House', a county museum which opened in 2008. It is controlled by CCBC Museums service and the Friends of the Winding House community group.
The area is rich in the mining heritage of the South Wales mining industry. The area is supported by two primary schools; White Rose Primary school and Phillipstown Primary school. The area also contains a number of religious buildings including; Saint Dingat's Church and the Presbyterian Church of Wales.
Along with other parts of Rhymney, New Tredegar has Welsh speakers in the community. The Welsh-only monuments in the local cemetery testify to the strength of the language locally in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Sport
editCapel Golf Club, New Tredegar, (now defunct) first appeared in the mid 1930s and continued into the 1950s.[1]
New Tredegar RFC, sits in Division 4 of Welsh Rugby Union League.
Notable people
edit- Darcy Blake, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
- Tim Rhys-Evans, was a vocal tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and MBE holder
- Linden Jones, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
- Eliot Allen Richards, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
- Gerald Jones, MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
- Pam Gems, notable playwright, lived in New Tredegar from 1984-1993[2]
Politics
editIn the Caerphilly County Borough Council Elections 2017, Eluned Stenner and Anthony Evans were elected.[3]
Businesses
editNew Tredegar is home to Zipline Creative, a TV production company.
AJM Sewing,[4] one of the last UK-based underwear and swimming costume manufacturers, was based in a converted chapel in New Tredegar but went into liquidation in 2018.[5]
References
edit- ^ “Capel Golf Club”, “Golf’s Missing Links”.
- ^ Gardner, Lyn (16 May 2011). "Pam Gems obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
- ^ "Election Results 2017". Archived from the original on 13 May 2017.
- ^ "Redirecting to Retailer".
- ^ Kirsty McGregor (16 October 2018). "Lingerie and swimwear manufacturer AJM Sewing has gone into voluntary liquidation and ceased trading". Drapers.