Location
Location Summary
Situated just a short distance from the town’s main shopping precinct, Bethcar Street, which provides a variety of independent and well known regional retailers in addition to a weekly open air market. The town also offers a range out of town food stores including Tesco, Morrissons and Aldi in addition to various fast food restaurants, pubs and bars. The town benefits from a bus station offering routes to the surrounding town’s and villages, two railway stations with parking facilities and regular trains to Newport joining the London/Swansea line and is just over a mile and a half from the recently upgraded A465 link road.The area is steeped in the history of its industrial heritage but has in more recent years enjoyed the benefit of extensive investment which now includes an NHS trust hospital, Leisure Centre providing extensive sporting facilities, a campus of Coleg Gwent and schooling for Primary and Secondary age children at Ebbw Fawr.
Just a few miles to the North are the hills of the beautiful Bannau Breichiniog National Park an area of outstanding natural beauty.