Risca

Risca occupies the lower Ebbw Valley in south-east Wales, where the River Ebbw runs between steep, formerly industrial hills. The town expanded during the nineteenth-century coalfield era, when collieries and ironworks reshaped a rural valley into a working community connected with Newport and the wider South Wales coalfield. Its most sombre historical reference is the 1880 Black Vein Colliery disaster, in which 120 men and boys were killed. Risca remains closely tied to the transport routes that follow the valley, while the slopes of Mynydd Machen rise nearby. Browse other webcams across Caerphilly County Borough and south-east Wales to place Risca in a wider geographic context.

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