Wattsville

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Wattsville is a small typical Welsh valley village in the Sirhowy valley, 8 miles north west of Newport, county capital. It consists of one main street with another hugging the valley below. Wattsville is the base for the Sirhowy valley country park, starting at the tourist centre in Full Moon Cottage, a site for walking and mountain biking on the old railway. Further up the valley at Cwmfelinfach is the old site of Nine Mile Point colliery, site of the first ever 'sit in' of miners. New Risca Mine, open 1878 and 855 feet deep, located on the eastern edge of wattsville was the fist colliery in South Wales to have electric lighting at the pit head and underground in 1892.

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