Tredegar

Tredegar is a metropolis and community located at the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic obstacles of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in Wales. The historic Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, United States become named in honour of the city. The applicable wards Tredegar Central and West, and Georgetown together listed the town's population as 9,473 inside the UK 2011 census.

The first recorded iron works within the Sirhowy Valley became Pont Gwaith Yr Hearn, advanced by using Bretons and labored through guys from Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil. The Sirhowy Iron Works changed into erected in 1750 by means of Mr Kettle of Shropshire. In 1778 Kettle sold this ironworks to Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow, who got here to the area from London. They evolved it because the first coal fired furnace, so men were hired to dig coal at Bryn Bach and Nantybwch, the first small scale coal mining operation inside the place. The furnace and consequently the enterprise failed in 1794.