Place:Griffithstown, Monmouthshire, Wales

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NameGriffithstown
Alt namesSebastopolsource: village in parish
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.685°N 3.028°W
Located inMonmouthshire, Wales     ( - 1974)
Also located inGwent, Wales     (1974 - 1996)
Torfaen (principal area), Wales     (1996 - )
See alsoPanteg, Monmouthshire, Walesurban district in which it was located 1894-1935
Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Walesurban district in which it was located 1935-1974
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Griffithstown is a large community within Pontypool in the borough of Torfaen, Wales and also within the historic boundaries of the county of Monmouthshire. It is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in May 1898, from Llanfrechfa Upper and Panteg, and includes Sebastopol. Under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894, it was a separate civil parish.

It is situated between two other Pontypool suburbs: Pontymoel to the north (originally part of Panteg) and Sebastopol to the south, and is within walking distance of central Pontypool and Cwmbran and a short commute from Newport and Cardiff. It is named after the first station master of the Pontypool and New Inn railway station (then known as Pontypool Road), Henry Griffiths. Griffiths founded a 'terminating' Building Society to finance the construction of houses in the village so that his workforce could become freehold owner-occupiers, rather than constructing rental or leasehold housing as was the more usual practice in industrial South Wales and Monmouthshire. He lived in the substantial St. Dunstan's House (now demolished) on what is now Commercial Street and his memorial is in St Hilda's Church.

Wikipedia gives the population of Griffithstown as 5,450, but does not give a date for this figure.

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