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Cwmbrân

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Cwmbrân (kmbrän`), city (1981 pop. 44,592), Torfaen, SE Wales. Cwmbrân was created under the New Town Act of 1946 to house employees of the nearby steelworks. It has diverse industries, including the production of car parts, nylon yarn, and cookies.

Cwmbrân

Town (pop., 1991: 46,020), southeastern Wales. One of 32 new towns established in Britain after World War II to relieve congestion and encourage development, Cwmbrân was inaugurated in 1949 in an area of small and decaying industrial villages. Its industries include automobile-parts production.



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