Swffryd (or Sofrydd) is a
Welsh
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community on the boundary of
Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw ...
County Borough Council.
Geography
The
Ebbw River
The Ebbw River (; cy, Afon Ebwy) is a river in South Wales which gives its name to the town of Ebbw Vale. The Ebbw River is joined by the Ebbw Fach River (Welsh: Afon Ebwy Fach meaning 'little Ebbw river') at Aberbeeg. The Ebbw Fach is itself fed ...
flows past the west of the village.
It is located north east of
Crumlin, south of
Abertillery
Abertillery (; cy, Abertyleri) is a town and a community of the Ebbw Fach valley in the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales. Following local government reorganisation it became part of the Blaenau Gwent County Borough administrative area. ...
and north west of
Newport. The
B4471 and A472 runs near to the village. The population of the
community
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is 5,947 including the whole ward of Crumlin.
Most of the site was built as local authority houses to house the mining population. Lewis Street, Rectory Road and other parts in the west of the village have older houses and buildings.
Remains of the
Crumlin Viaduct
The Crumlin Viaduct was a railway bridge, railway viaduct located above the village of Crumlin, Caerphilly, Crumlin in South Wales, originally built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Newport, Ab ...
can still be seen in Swffryd / Sofrydd and can be seen in full view from neighbouring
Crumlin just off Lewis Street at the top of the embankment.
Politics
The Llanhilleth
electoral ward
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serves the village. The ward is represented by Councillors Norman Lee Parsons (Llanhilleth,
Ind
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), Hedley McCarthy (Llanhilleth,
Lab), and Joanne Collins (Llanhilleth,
Ind
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).
The area is represented in the
Senedd
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by
Alun Davies (
Labour
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) and the Member of Parliament is
Nick Smith (Labour).
Transport
The village is a 37-minute walk, and from
Llanhilleth railway station
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.
It is also a 48-minute walk to
Newbridge railway station. Both stations provide hourly trains from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff Central, and in 2021, to Newport.
The town is served by the bus stops on the B4471 at Sofrydd Schools and Walters Avenue stops, with connections t
Stagecoach South Wales services:
* 21 (Cwmbran-Blackwood/Pontypool)
* 62 (Ebbw Vale-Cwmbran)
* X15 (Newport-Brynmawr)
* X1 (Cwmbran-Brynmawr and Pontypool)
* 95A (Abertillery)
* 95B (Newbridge)
* 95C (Aberbeeg)
References
External links
Heritage pagefor Crumlin Viaduct
at Industrial Gwent
Villages in Blaenau Gwent
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