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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Panteg (Welsh: Pant-teg) (19th century: Panteague) is now a village in the County Borough of Torfaen, Wales. It is adjacent to Griffithstown, between the towns of Cwmbran and Pontypool. The village is best known for Panteg Steel Works, which opened in 1873 and closed in 2004.
Prior to 1935 when it was amalgamated into Pontypool Urban District, Panteg was itself an urban district. It had a population of 11,499 in 1931.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Panteg from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "PANTEAGUE, a village and a parish in Pontypool [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]. The village stands ¾ of a mile E of the river Avon-Llwyd, 1 S E of Pontypool [railway] station, and 2¼ S E of Pontypool; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office under Pontypool. The parish contains also the villages of Pontymoel, Sebastopol, Cwmynysgoy, Penyrheol, and Upper Race. Acres: 3,458. Real property: £10,214; of which £1,000 are in mines. Population in 1851: 2,349; in 1861: 2,828. Houses: 555. The property is subdivided. There are extensive iron-works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £343.* Patron: H. Leigh, Esq. The church is good:and there are three school-chapels, an Independent chapel, two national schools, and a mechanics' library and reading-room."
Sebastopol has been redirected to Griffithstown because it was part of Griffithstown by 1900.
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