New Tredegar
New Tredegar is a former mining town and also neighborhood in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly region borough, Wales, within the historical 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 as well as the Friends of the Winding House neighborhood team. The area is rich in the mining heritage of the South Wales mining sector. The area is supported by two primary schools; White Rose Primary school and also Phillipstown Primary school. The area also has a number of spiritual structures consisting of; Saint Dingat's Church as well as the Presbyterian Church of Wales. Along with other parts of Rhymney, New Tredegar was among the last locations within Monmouthshire to maintain the Welsh Language, with indigenous speakers using the language in stores and also financial institutions into the 1970s. Welsh-only monuments in the local burial ground demonstrate the stamina of the language in your area in the first quarter of the 20th century.
