Garn-yr-erw

Human settlement in Wales
Garn-yr-erw is located in Torfaen
Garn-yr-erw
Garn-yr-erw
Location within Torfaen
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  • Torfaen
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  • Gwent
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  • Torfaen
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Torfaen
51°47′01″N 3°06′35″W / 51.7837°N 3.1098°W / 51.7837; -3.1098

Garn-yr-erw is a village in south-eastern Wales, lying at the source of the Afon Llwyd north of Blaenavon and Pontypool, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. The village lies at an altitude of approx 400 metres [clarification needed] on the side of Gilwern Hill, Monmouthshire and is cited by the Ordnance Survey as the highest village in Wales.[1]

The village had a station on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway from 1913 until the line's closure in 1941.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey. "MapZone". Retrieved 4 March 2007.
  2. ^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 191. OCLC 931112387.

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