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slate roof. Single storey street elevations with windows onto secondary aisles which surround the main aisled hall. The Market Street elevation has a central doorway with four centred Tudor arch head. This has part glazed wooden doors with pilasters rising to a corbel frieze and a date panel 1893, and a parapet over with raised battlement type features at either end. This door is flanked on either side by four three-light windows with yellow brick frames and mullions. These are all in line, but the plinth below with yellow brick coping is stepped down the street. Additional doors flank these, again with pilasters but not rising to a parapet; then another three light window at the north end but only a single light one at the south corner. The end elevation has first a single light, then a two-light with king mullion, then five three-light windows, the most northerly one with a roundel in a gable above. The roofs behind these walls can be seen stepped up in three heights over the two aisles and the main nave. The nave roof has timber gable windows and glazing along the length of the roof on both slopes. Crane Street entrance: This has another Tudor doorway as above, but flanked by one over one windows in plain heads. Above the entrance is a crow-stepped gable with block at apex and a three light window with stepped head above the door. Gable has date 1894 and inscription PLB (Pontypool Local Board). Commercial Street entrance has another Tudor style doorway set into the ground floor of an early C19 terrace on the south west side of
Commercial Street. Only the doorway and the dateplaque 1894 above it are late C19.
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but there is extensive open grassland. The
American Gardens were opened to the public in 2008, after being closed to visitors for many years, and a restoration project is under way. Torfaen County Borough Council is currently mapping all the trees from the park to remove and then replant those dying
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Exterior A large iron framed market hall with two full elevations and three secondary entrances through other street frontages, eg. Jubilee
Building, Crane Street. Built of grey narrow coursed rock faced pennant limestone with some larger stones, and with yellow Ebbw Vale brick dressings and a Welsh
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has its own community-focused radio station: Able Radio is a volunteer-run radio station which supports adults with autism and learning disabilities, and claims to be "the first Radio
Station run by people with Learning Disabilities and Autism in the world". In recent years, Able Radio station has
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A market hall of 1893-4, built when the existing facility became too small and needed replacing due to the greatly increased local population. The previous
Vegetable Market (1875) which stood on the same site was demolished, but the first hall built in 1730 still survives in Commercial Street. The
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Market was designed by Robert
Williams and D J Loughor (who was probably the engineer). This building is the only physical reminder of the work of the Pontypool Local Board who were replaced by the Pontypool Urban District Council following the 1894 Local Government Act.
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light curved iron members, and a roof structure of light iron with timber rafters and sarking. The nave roof has bands of glazing running the full length on either side of the ridge. The interior appears to be very little altered. The stalls are mostly modern.
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increased the scope of their activities, including television productions and their gardening project and associated produce shop, SustainAble. There is also the
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1711:) is being considered for deletion. See
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1566:Parnell, Brid-Aine (5 November 2012),
1208:List of Scheduled Monuments in Torfaen
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832:The highest point of the county is
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1727:American Gardens, Pontypool Park
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1043:List of schools in Torfaen
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1732:Cwmbran, A Short History
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21:Torfaen (disambiguation)
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840:Pontypool Indoor Market
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16:County borough in Wales
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1788:Torfaen County Borough
1160:Freedom of the Borough
1154:Freedom of the Borough
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880:. The park includes a
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1651:The South Wales Argus
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1361:The National Archives
1330:The National Archives
972:seat. At present the
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191:Torfaen shown within
3064:Transport portal
2087:Garndiffaith Viaduct
1465:"Able Radio Station"
1179:Royal British Legion
1142:. There is also the
1088:West Monmouth School
1061:Croesyceiliog School
988:. Torfaen is also a
925:World Heritage Site.
797:Area characteristics
761:Gwent County Council
447: • Density
19:For other uses, see
2354:South Pembrokeshire
2174:Scheduled Monuments
2072:Blaenavon Ironworks
1600:on 18 November 2015
1238:"About the Council"
1140:Transport for Wales
1070:Cwmbran High School
978:Nick Thomas-Symonds
350:Nick Thomas-Symonds
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2065:Places of interest
1940:St Cadocs/Penygarn
1443:www.torfaen.gov.uk
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1356:legislation.gov.uk
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1494:South Wales Argus
1417:South Wales Argus
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1108:Further education
958:South Wales Argus
776:principal council
735:Llanfrechfa Lower
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