Tredegar

Tredegar is a town in Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys, situated in the upper reaches of the Sirhowy Valley at an elevation of approximately 300 metres above sea level. The town developed as an iron-making and coal-mining community in the 19th century and was the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, the Labour politician who founded the National Health Service. The town centre has a distinctive circular Victorian clock tower and a clock known as the Tredegar Town Clock, which is a local landmark. Tredegar lies approximately fourteen miles north of Newport on the edge of the Brecon Beacons.