Trevethin or Trefethin is a suburb of Pontypool and a community in Torfaen, Wales. It includes two electoral wards for Torfaen County Borough Council. It is in the historic county of Monmouthshire. Trevethin was a small village that was the seat of the parish of Trevethin in ancient Abergavenny Hundred. It has become a modern suburb, as economi…Trevethin or Trefethin is a suburb of Pontypool and a community in Torfaen, Wales. It includes two electoral wards for Torfaen County Borough Council. It is in the historic county of Monmouthshire. Trevethin was a small village that was the seat of the parish of Trevethin in ancient Abergavenny Hundred. It has become a modern suburb, as economic growth led to a construction boom surrounding the village in the 1960s and '70s. Today Trevethin almost imperceptibly merges with nearby Penygarn. In 2005 it was announced that the district's local school, Trevethin Community School, was to close. Pupils were moved to Abersychan comprehensive school and West Monmouth School. The school buildings have since been demolished, but for a period beginning in 1988, they housed Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw, a Welsh-medium education secondary school located in Trevethin, which remains on the former site of the Trevethin Community School, but in modern buildings.
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