New Tredegar

Human settlement in Wales

New Tredegar

Location within Caerphilly

Population4,966 OS grid referenceSO143032Principal area

Caerphilly

Preserved county

Gwent

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Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney

Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney

List of places: UK; Wales; Caerphilly

51°43′18″N 3°14′25″W / 51.72167°N 3.24028°W / 51.72167; -3.24028

New Tredegar (Welsh: Tredegar Newydd) is a former mining town and community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

New Tredegar is now home to 'The Winding House', a county museum which opened in 2008. It is controlled by CCBC Museums service and the Friends of the Winding House community group.

The area is rich in the mining heritage of the South Wales mining industry. The area is supported by two primary schools; White Rose Primary school and Phillipstown Primary school. The area also contains a number of religious buildings including; Saint Dingat's Church and the Presbyterian Church of Wales.

Along with other parts of Rhymney, New Tredegar has Welsh speakers in the community. The Welsh-only monuments in the local cemetery testify to the strength of the language locally in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Sport

Capel Golf Club, New Tredegar, (now defunct) first appeared in the mid 1930s and continued into the 1950s.^[1]

New Tredegar RFC, sits in Division 4 of Welsh Rugby Union League.

Notable people

See Category:People from New Tredegar

Darcy Blake, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
Tim Rhys-Evans, was a vocal tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and MBE holder
Linden Jones, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
Eliot Allen Richards, professional footballer, was born in New Tredegar.
Gerald Jones, MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Pam Gems, notable playwright, lived in New Tredegar from 1984-1993^[2]

Politics

In the Caerphilly County Borough Council Elections 2017, Eluned Stenner and Anthony Evans were elected.^[3]

Businesses

New Tredegar is home to Zipline Creative, a TV production company.

AJM Sewing,^[4] one of the last UK-based underwear and swimming costume manufacturers, was based in a converted chapel in New Tredegar but went into liquidation in 2018.^[5]

References

^ “Capel Golf Club”, “Golf’s Missing Links”.
^ Gardner, Lyn (16 May 2011). "Pam Gems obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
^ "Election Results 2017". Archived from the original on 13 May 2017.
^ "Redirecting to Retailer".
^ Kirsty McGregor (16 October 2018). "Lingerie and swimwear manufacturer AJM Sewing has gone into voluntary liquidation and ceased trading". Drapers.