Abercarn

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Abercarn
Statistics
Population:	4,793 (2001 census[1])
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for ST216947
Administration
Principal area:	Caerphilly
Constituent country:	Wales
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Police force:	Gwent Police
Ceremonial county:	Gwent
Historic county:	Monmouthshire
Post office and telephone
Post town:	NEWPORT
Postal district:	NP11
Dialling code:	+44-1495
Politics
UK Parliament:	Islwyn
European Parliament:	Wales

Abercarn is a community in south Wales, 10 miles north-west of Newport at grid reference ST216947.

The district was traditionally associated with collieries, ironworks and tinplate works, although all have now closed; the town, which lies in the middle portion of the Ebbw valley, being situated on the south-eastern flank of the once great mining region of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.

[edit] Local government

The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late nineteenth century. In 1892 a local board of health and local government district of Abercarn was formed.^[2] This became Abercarn urban district in 1894, governed by an urban district council of twelve members.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent. Further local government organisation in 1996 placed the area in the county borough of Caerphilly. The former urban district corresponds to the three communities of Abercarn, Crumlin and Newbridge.

[edit] References

1. ^ Office for National Statistics Parish Headcounts: Abercarn
2. ^ Formed as Newbridge local board and local government district on March 17, 1892, renamed Abercarn on July 4 of the same year. County Census Report 1901, Monmouthshire

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.