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RHYMNEY , an See also:urban See also:district in the western See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Monmouthshire, See also:England, on the See also:borders of See also:Glamorganshire, 22 M . N. by W. of See also:Cardiff, on the Rhymney, the See also:London & See also:North-Western, and the See also:Brecon & Merthyr See also:railways . Pop . (1901), 7815 . The Rhymney See also:river, in the upper valley of which this See also:town lies, forms almost throughout its course, to the See also:estuary of the See also:Severn near Cardiff, the boundary between England and See also:Wales (Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire) . In its upper See also:part the valley, like others adjacent and parallel to it, is populous with See also:mining townships, and the town of Rhymney owes its importance to the neighbouring See also:coal-mines and to its See also:iron and See also:steel See also:works, which employ nearly the whole See also:population . The works of the Rhymney Iron See also:Company, including blast furnaces and See also:rolling See also:mills, are among the largest of the See also:kind in England . |
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