Tredegar
Tredegar (; ) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in Wales. The relevant wards (Tredegar Central and West, Sirhowy and Georgetown) collectively listed the town's population as 15,103 in the UK 2011 census. Origins of the name The name is a transferred name taken from Tredegar in Coedcernyw by Newport. To avoid confusion, the original Tredegar is nowadays known in English as Tredegar House or Tredegar Park. The name Tredegar is first attested as Tredegyr, which is a compund of tre(f) 'homestead' and the personal name Tegyr. Unfounded attempts to explain the name based on folk etymology include Tre(f)-deg-erw ('the ten-acre-homestead'). In 1800, Samuel Homfray married Jane Morgan, daughter of Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 1st Baronet of Tredegar House, and thus obtained a favourable lease of mineral land in the Sirhowy Valley where he established the Tredegar Ironworks. The company's buildings appeared on the 1832 Ordnance Survey map as Tredegar Iron Works. The name of the town is taken from that of the ironworks. In the