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ID: 1064634
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1064634
Record Type:
administrative
Cwmbran (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 39 11 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.6531
decimal degrees
Long: 003 01 36 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.0267
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the 32 "new towns" established in United Kingdom after World War II, to replace decaying villages & attract new industries, which include automobile, textile & cookie factories; some tinplate factories date from 19th cen.
Names:
Cwmbran
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Cwm-brân
(
NA
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
Torfaen
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Cwmbran
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
new town established in 1949
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cwmbran..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 817
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
52
Cwm-brân..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 817
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2593954
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
52
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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