In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Abertillery like this:
ABERTILLERY, a village in Aberystruth parish, Monmouth; 5 miles N of Crumlin. It has a station on the Western Valleys railway, a post office‡ under Newport, Monmouth, and a sub-parochial church.
Abertillery through time
Abertillery is now part of Blaenau Gwent district. Click here for graphs and data of how Blaenau Gwent has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Abertillery itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Abertillery, in Blaenau Gwent and Monmouthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/671
Date accessed: 13th February 2025
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