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    Blaina (/ˈblaɪnə/ BLEYE-nə Welsh: Blaenau Welsh pronunciation: [ˈbleɨnaɨ]) is a small town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr...
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  • county of Monmouth situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Blaina and Brynmawr in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent. An electoral ward in...
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  • Nantyglo and Blaina is a community in Blaenau Gwent, South Wales, including the small towns of Blaina and Nantyglo. The population in 2011 was 9,443. The...
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    Blaina railway station was a station which served the small town of Blaina in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire. Among the lines built by the Monmouthshire...
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    Barry Beaumaris Bedwas Bethesda Blaenau Ffestiniog Blaenavon Blackwood Blaina Brecon Bridgend Briton Ferry Brynmawr Buckley Builth Wells Burry Port Caerleon...
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  • Blaina Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Blaina in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. They presently play in the Welsh...
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    Blaina and District Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Blaina a'r Cylch) was a community hospital in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan...
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    Aberystruth (section Blaina)
    The parish church located near the centre of the parish in the village of Blaina and dedicated to St Peter, was first built about the year 1500 and that...
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  • Kannon Billed height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) Billed weight 204 lb (93 kg) Billed from Blaina, South Wales, Wales, UK Trained by Mike Bird Jason Cross Debut 2006...
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    Urban District Llanelly parish from Crickhowell Rural District Nantyglo and Blaina Urban District Tredegar Urban District Brynmawr and Llanelly had been in...
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    of them have a community council: Brynmawr (town council), Nantyglo and Blaina (town council), Tredegar (town council), and Abertillery and Llanhilleth...
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    Renumbered as a northern extension of the A467 in 1935. A4045 Unused Ran from Blaina Road to the A465 (now A4047) in Brynmawr. Now the B4248. Number later used...
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    (closed 2008) Blaenavon Hospital, Blaenavon (closed 2014) Blaina & District Hospital, Blaina (closed 2010) Caerphilly District Miners Hospital, Caerphilly...
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  • William Partridge (soldier) (category People from Blaina)
    was born in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire on 27 June 1858. William moved to Blaina, Monmouthshire when he was a young boy with his parents. He enlisted into...
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  • Blaenau Gwent county borough, South Wales. Abertillery Badminton Beaufort Blaina Brynmawr Cwm Cwmtillery Ebbw Vale North Ebbw Vale South Georgetown Llanhilleth...
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    2010, when the school re-located to a brand new, purpose-built building in Blaina. Prior to the Industrial Revolution and the founding of Brynmawr, a settlement...
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    Bournville (Mon) Halt railway station was a station which served Ty'r-Cecil near Blaina Abertillery in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire. The halt was opened by...
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  • RFC Senghenydd RFC Tredegar Ironsides RFC Abergavenny RFC Abertillery RFC Blaina RFC Croesyceiliog RFC Garndiffaith RFC Newport HSOB RFC Newport Saracens...
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  • Frank Richards (British Army soldier) (category People from Blaina)
    at the age of nine, and was then brought up by his aunt and uncle in the Blaina area of the South Wales Valleys in industrial Monmouthshire. The uncle,...
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  • Mike Ruddock (category Blaina RFC players)
    guitar relatively well. Ruddock was born in Blaina, and played in the back row for his local team, Blaina. He also played for Tredegar and Swansea, making...
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    a sighting of Toplis at a prayer meeting at the Salem Baptist Chapel in Blaina, little more than a mile from Nantyglo, the birthplace of Jesse Robert Short...
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    Assets of Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2020. "War Memorials Register: Nantyglo & Blaina Stone of Rembrance". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 7 April 2020. "War Memorials...
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  • final game of the season against Brynmawr RFC. Nantyglo's local rivals are Blaina RFC and Brynmawr RFC. BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map"...
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  • Society which later merged with the Blaina Co-operative Industrial Society. In 1893 Allen became general manager of the Blaina society. In 1906 he became a director...
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  • Blaina Party Candidate Votes % Labour Lisa Winnett 770 68.0 Independent John Morgan 722 63.7 Independent Des Hillman 317 28.0 Turnout 1,133 Labour gain...
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  • Blaina ward (three seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Garth Perry Collier 798 25.3 Independent John Patrick Morgan 518 16.4 Labour Lisa Catherine...
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  • District Hospital, Abertillery Blaenavon Hospital, Blaenavon Blaina & District Hospital, Blaina Caerphilly District Miners Hospital, Caerphilly Chepstow Community...
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    his colleague, Kevin Lane, were killed in a flash-over at a house fire in Blaina, Wales. They had already rescued one 5-year-old boy (who subsequently died...
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  • father was also called James Brown, and was one of the proprietors of the Blaina iron-works, Monmouthshire for a time. James attended Camberwell Collegiate...
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  • Watkins 1926–27 Loose forward Welsh rugby union international signed from Blaina. Later joined Oldham. 478 Walter Swift 1926–27 Scrum half Halfback played...
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