Ebbw Vale

Ebbw Vale ĕbˈo͞o [key], Welsh Glyn Ebwy, town, Blaenau Gwent, SE Wales. A former coal-mining town, it is a retail and industrial center with steelworks and tin-plate factories. Labour politician Aneurin Bevan was born there.

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