Hotels in Ebbw Vale
Ebbw Vale is located in the borough of Blaenau Gwent in the south east corner of Wales. The town is the largest of the three main ones in Blaenau Gwent with a population of around 25,000-30,000. The town is currently undergoing hundreds of millions of pounds of regeneration work on the former Steelworks site in the middle of the valley. The recent re-introduction of the railway link into the town has been a great boost to the local area with over 100,000 people using the link in the first few months. The town is just outside the Brecon beacons national park, with the Beacons just half an hour away via the A465.
Originally a rather insignificant spot in rural Monmouthshire with only about 140 inhabitants at the end of the 18th century, Ebbw Vale — and the whole valley — was transformed by the Industrial Revolution. The Ebbw Vale Iron Works later to become the Ebbw Steel works and opened in 1778, followed by the opening of a number of coal mines around 1790. At its height (1930s — 40s) the steel works in Ebbw Vale was the largest in Europe, attracting attention from German bombers during World War II. However the deep valley proved difficult to bomb and the plant survived. Ebbw Vale suffered from the decline of the steel and coal industries and there are now no steelworks or mines left in or around the town. In 2003 work began on demolishing the long-standing steelworks, and currently around one to two miles of the valley stands empty awaiting development.
Ebbw Vale hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1958 . The Welsh language was dominant in the area until the last quarter of the 19th century and remnants of the language (Welsh hymns and pockets of Welsh being spoken in nearby Rhymney) persisted into the 1970s. The National Eisteddfod will return to Ebbw Vale in 2010 and will be sited on the new WORKS site.
Aneurin Bevan, the "father" of the National Health Service, represented Ebbw Vale as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) in Parliament from the 1929 general election. When he died in 1960, he was succeeded as MP by Michael Foot. The seat is now called Blaenau Gwent.
29 hotels
Hotels available in Ebbw Vale
Location: Tredegar
Distance: 1.90 miles
Rating: 2*
Prices From: £30.00
Location: Abergavenny
Distance: 4.99 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £86.00
Location: South Wales
Distance: 5.27 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £65.00
Location: Crickhowell
Distance: 5.73 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £59.00
Location: Crickhowell
Distance: 5.96 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £89.00
Location: Crickhowell
Distance: 6.02 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £50.00
Location: Crickhowell
Distance: 6.13 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £101.00
Location: Raglan
Distance: 6.13 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £60.00
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