Abertillery city is a former coal mining settled inside the executive county borough of Blaenau Gwent and geographically inside the previous counties of Gwent and antecedently Monmouthshire in south Wales. Abertillery city is found inside the Ebbw Fach vale enclosed by lovely scenery of wooded hills and wild open moorland with lakes. Lying within the mountainous mining district of the previous counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, within the vale of the Ebbw Fach, the population was historically used within the various coal-mines, ironworks and tin-plate works, currently defunct. more up a similar vale square measure the mining townships of Nantyglo and Blaina.

Abertillery city includes a traditional-style city centre and several other little colleges. Today, its population numbers simply over eleven,000 and is assumed to be declining. In 2003, Abertillery was found to own the most cost effective homes within the uk, in line with a survey by the Halifax, with a mean worth of solely £37,872.Noted for its unspoiled rural scenery, Abertillery neighbours the little districts of Aberbeeg , Llanhilleth , Cwmtillery , and 6 Bells .

Over the past number of decades Abertillery city has been remodeled from associate degree industrial relic into the clean, progressive space it's nowadays – this has mostly been achieved thanks to massive amounts of European Community Objective One funding that has helped Abertillery city take away ugly reminders of the commercial past. several of those areas are used as enjoying fields, business parks or mixed use land. a whole regeneration of Abertillery city centre is planned for 2012-2013.

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