Abercarn, Monmouthshire
Historical Description
Abercarn, a town in Mynyddyslwyn parish, Monmouthshire, on the G.W.R., 10 miles NW of Newport. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newport, a railway station, chemical works, iron and tinplate works, and extensive collieries. There are several chapels. Population, 10,464.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Newport | 1894 - 1936 |
Registration district | Caerleon | 1936 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Maps
Online maps of Abercarn are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: