Ebbw Vale

Rather romantically translated as ‘Valley of the Wild Horses’ Ebbw Vale offers some of the most spectacular scenery to be found anywhere in Wales. In Welsh the name of the place is Glyn Ebbwy and it is a place that was built around its heavy industrial heritage. Up until the end of the 18th Century there were fewer than one hundred and fifty people living in the valley, but thanks to the industrial revolution and the subsequent increase in demand from coal, the coal fields of South Wales were expanded…

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