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New Tredegar / Tredegar Newydd

(from tre+tegyr+newydd)

Although 'tre' or 'tref' is more commonly the Welsh word for 'town', it can also be used for 'farm' as in this case. Tegyr was the name of the farm from where the Tredegar family took their name ('tegyr' becoming 'tegar' over time). The original Tredegar was near Newport (Tredegar House was the location of the 2004 National Eisteddfod). The Iron Works owned by the family in the Sirhowy valley gave rise to the town of Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent and the new houses built in the next valley became the village of New Tredegar, taking the name of the Colliery that opened there in 1858. The area was built on the site of two farms, Aberysibwr and Cwmysibwr and was originally called White Rose. That name was preserved in the railway station White Rose in 1885, in the road name White Rose Way and now in the name of the new community School built in the area and opened in September 2004, White Rose Primary School.

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