Editing Torfaen (section)

==Local landmarks==
The highest point of the county is [[Coity Mountain]].

===Pontypool Indoor Market===
A market hall of 1893-4, built when the existing facility became too small and needed replacing due to the greatly increased local population. The previous Vegetable Market (1875) which stood on the same site was demolished, but the first hall built in 1730 still survives in Commercial Street. The Market was designed by Robert Williams and D J Loughor (who was probably the engineer). This building is the only physical reminder of the work of the Pontypool Local Board who were replaced by the Pontypool Urban District Council following the [[Local Government Act 1894]].

; Exterior:
A large iron framed market hall with two full elevations and three secondary entrances through other street frontages, eg. Jubilee Building, Crane Street. Built of grey narrow coursed rock faced pennant limestone with some larger stones, and with yellow Ebbw Vale brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof. Single storey street elevations with windows onto secondary aisles which surround the main aisled hall. The Market Street elevation has a central doorway with four centred Tudor arch head. This has part glazed wooden doors with pilasters rising to a corbel frieze and a date panel 1893, and a parapet over with raised battlement type features at either end. This door is flanked on either side by four three-light windows with yellow brick frames and mullions. These are all in line, but the plinth below with yellow brick coping is stepped down the street. Additional doors flank these, again with pilasters but not rising to a parapet; then another three light window at the north end but only a single light one at the south corner. The end elevation has first a single light, then a two-light with king mullion, then five three-light windows, the most northerly one with a roundel in a gable above. The roofs behind these walls can be seen stepped up in three heights over the two aisles and the main nave. The nave roof has timber gable windows and glazing along the length of the roof on both slopes.

; Crane Street entrance:
This has another Tudor doorway as above, but flanked by one over one windows in plain heads. Above the entrance is a crow-stepped gable with block at apex and a three light window with stepped head above the door. Gable has date 1894 and inscription PLB (Pontypool Local Board).

The Commercial Street entrance has another Tudor style doorway set into the ground floor of an early C19 terrace on the south west side of Commercial Street. Only the doorway and the dateplaque 1894 above it are late C19.

; Interior
The market has a central nave supported on plain iron columns, and this has aisles on either side and then a secondary aisle which surrounds most of the structure. There are additional passageways giving access to the entrances in Commercial Street and in Crane Street. The columns carry light curved iron members, and a roof structure of light iron with timber rafters and sarking. The nave roof has bands of glazing running the full length on either side of the ridge. The interior appears to be very little altered. The stalls are mostly modern.

===Pontypool Park===
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*Pontypool Park is the name given to the former principal residence of Pontypool (now a [[St Alban's R.C. High School, Torfaen|secondary school]]) and the {{convert|160|acre|km2|adj=on}} park that surrounds it. The park contains [[Pontypool Leisure Centre]] and sports facilities and is the home of [[Pontypool RFC]]. The park includes a [[folly]], shell grotto and ornamental ponds. Much of the area is given to [[woodland]] but there is extensive open grassland. The American Gardens were opened to the public in 2008, after being closed to visitors for many years, and a restoration project is under way. Torfaen County Borough Council is currently mapping all the trees from the park to remove and then replant those dying and diseased.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/3985384.Torfaen_man_s_bid_to_make_map_of_trees/|title=Torfaen man's bid to make map of trees|date=18 December 2008|publisher=[[South Wales Argus]]|access-date=19 April 2009}}</ref>

===Cwmbran Centre===
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*Cwmbran Centre is advertised as the second largest under-cover shopping centre in Wales. The centre includes many familiar high-street stores.

===Blaenavon===
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*The former coal-mining and iron-working town of Blaenavon in the northern part of the county borough is now a recognised [[UNESCO]] World Heritage Site.
{{See also|List of Scheduled Monuments in Torfaen}}