Tredegar is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales.
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17 Facts About Tredegar
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Original Tredegar is in Coedcernyw by Newport, and isadays more usually known in English as Tredegar House.
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Origin of the name Tredegar has been said to be "tref y deg erw" or "tre'r deg erw".
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Tredegar grew as a developed town thanks to the natural resources it had within the Sirhowy Valley, namely:.
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The former Tredegar Ironworks were effectively abandoned, with Whiteheads taking over the southern section of the site from 1907.
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Samuel Homfray, an iron master who managed to obtain a large parcel of land in and around Tredegar, is to be thanked for Tredegar Circle and the wide streets running out from it.
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Tredegar showed a great concern about the state of the current streets and how narrow they were, deciding that his new town would have wide streets running out from a central place.
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Town clock which stands in the middle of Tredegar Circle was once where the town stocks resided, with there being records of people being put into the stocks to be punished for petty misdemeanours.
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Tredegar Circle is known for the pubs that occupy it, although there have been many that have closed down over the years such as the Greyhound Inn and the Freemasons, both once very popular with local workers.
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Tredegar sold franchises to business people who wanted to operate within his town, from which he would take a percentage.
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Tredegar paid his workers in his own private coinage, so that they could not easily spend their wages outside the town.
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Tredegar has strong links with prominent Labour MPs and the history of the Labour Party and the Labour Movement in Britain as a whole.
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Tredegar is 'The Home of Champions' namely the world-famous Tredegar Town Band.
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Tredegar enjoyed increasing contesting success after the Second World War, under the direction of first, Cornelius Buckley, followed later by John Childs.
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Originally in Tredegar there were two choirs, a glee party and a small chapel choir.
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Tredegar has been used for numerous TV and film locations, including The District Nurse starring Nerys Hughes.
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Tredegar has been twinned with Orvault in south-east Brittany since 1979.
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