Blaina
Blaina is a town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the County Borough of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire.
Blaina is a town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the County Borough of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire. The place name is derived from the Welsh word blaenau "uplands". As of 2011, the town has a population of 4,808.
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Worth seeing in and around Blaina
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, in and around Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, was inscribed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone.
5.1 km · World Heritage Site in Blaenavon, south-east Wales · Wikipedia - 02Cefn Manmoel
Cefn Manmoel is the name given to the broad ridge of high ground between the Sirhowy Valley and Ebbw Vale in the Valleys region of South Wales. It straddles the boundary between the unitary areas of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent.
3.4 km · area of high ground in South Wales · Wikipedia - 03Q4877486
The Beaufort Theatre is the principal theatre in Blaenau Gwent in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Until 2 April 2017 it was part of the Blaenau Gwent Venues, which also includes The Market Hall Cinema and Metropole Theatre, and formerly the Abertillery Community Theatre.
4.3 km · Theatre in Blaenau Gwent, Wales · Wikipedia - 04Nantyglo Round Towers
Nantyglo Round Towers are located at Roundhouse Farm, Nantyglo, near Brynmawr in the borough of Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys. The two fortified towers were constructed in the early 19th century as places of retreat by the ironmaster Joseph Bailey, after a riot was caused by his brother's threat to cut wages.
2.2 km · building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Dog Stone
The Dog Stone, on Mynydd Farteg, a subsidiary top of Coity Mountain, near the village of Abersychan, Torfaen, Wales, is a memorial, dating from 1864, to "Carlo", a Red setter. It is a Grade II listed structure.
5.7 km · memorial in Abersychan, Torfaen · Wikipedia - 06The Guardian Of The Valleys
The Guardian is a 20 m tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen.
5.9 km · mining memorial statue · Wikipedia - 07Tredegar Town Hall
Tredegar Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Circle, Tredegar, Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Tredegar Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
5.4 km · Grade II listed building in Tredegar. Building occupies SW quadrant of the Circle, in the town centre. · Wikipedia - 08Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery
Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery is situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, between Rhymney and Tredegar in South East Wales. The Welsh name Cefn Golau means 'hill of light'.
5.7 km · cemetery near Tredegar, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blaina
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 43 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 123 km
- Stations
- Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station, 2.3 km · Ebbw Vale Town railway station, 2.6 km · Cwm railway station, 3 km · Blaenavon Low Level railway station, 5.7 km · Clydach railway station, 5.7 km
- Cardiff → Blaina32 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £4–6
- Bristol → Blaina52 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Blaina117 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Blaina
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Blaina. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
From Wikivoyage: Abergavenny, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Blaina
Blaina is 32 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.