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Risca (Welsh: Rhisga) is a town in the Caerphilly County Borough and within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in south-east Wales. It has a population of 11,228.
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The town lies at the south-eastern edge of the South Wales Coalfield and has been shaped by mining, together with other heavy industries, for many centuries.
Risca is home to Ty-Sign, a large housing estate built in the early 1960s as a satellite village for the then new Llanwern steelworks.
Risca has a rural aspect and is surrounded to the east and west by several extensively wooded hills, including Mynydd Machen and Twmbarlwm, which attract tourists for the hillwalking and mountain bikers to Cwmcarn Forest Drive.
Risca has a railway station on the Ebbw Valley Railway, reopened in February 2008.
From the Wikipedia article Risca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Towns around Risca
- Newport7.4 km E
- Cwmbran7.5 km NE
- Caerphilly8.9 km SW
- Blackwood9.9 km NW
- Pontypool11 km N
- Gelligaer12 km NW
- Cardiff15 km S
- Pontypridd17 km W
Straight-line distance and compass bearing from the town centre.