Pontnewydd
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| Pontnewydd shown within Torfaen | |
| Area | 2.36 km2 (0.91 sq mi) |
| Population | 6,305 (2011) |
| • Density | 2,672/km2 (6,920/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | ST 291 963 |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CWMBRAN |
| Postcode district | NP44 |
| Dialling code | 01633 |
| Police | Gwent |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Pontnewydd (English translation: Newbridge) is a suburb of Cwmbran in the county borough of Torfaen, south-east Wales.
Beginning in the late 19th/early 20th century, as a small village in the locality of Llanfrechfa Upper, Pontnewydd has grown rapidly since the start of the Cwmbran New Town development in 1949. Locally, it is known as 'The Village'. Pontnewydd has its main commercial centre along Commercial Street, Richmond Road, New Street & Chapel Street.
Pontnewydd is split unofficially into a number of sub-districts: North Pontnewydd Estates, Five Locks Estate, Lowlands, Tŷ Newydd Estate, South Pontnewydd Estates and The Village.
Pontnewydd is both a community and an electoral ward of Torfaen County Borough Council. The electoral ward also includes Northville.
Cwmbran was designated as a new town under the New Towns Act 1946. It is the largest new town in Wales. The town was intended primarily to provide homes near work for those employed in the area and also to provide social and commercial facilities as well as to preserve open spaces, aiming for a balanced and self-contained community. Cwmbran’s original population was 12,000 of whom most who lived in Pontnewydd and Old Cwmbran.
Northville is a large and enclosed housing estate that lies between Pontnewydd and Croesyceiliog. Being the first set of housing developments after the start of Cwmbran New Town in 1949, its residents in the early 1950s worked in the booming post-war industry around the New Town. Like Thornhill several decades later, it reincorporated its surroundings and is now seen as an economically improved area of Torfaen County.
This is a residential area in the north-west of Cwmbran. Built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it hosts a pub, congregation centre, a row of commercial units and Birches Park.
The most well-known and noticeable feature of the area is the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. It splits the district roughly in half: it enters the district at the Five Locks Estate, divides the Lowlands and South Pontnewydd areas into two and continues down through Forge Hammer, towards Old Cwmbran.
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