The famous Lion Mill Nantyglo, was so named because of its proximity to the old thatched unlicensed house where '' Cwrw Bach '' or small beer has sold.

Tiffedd's House (Stones Row Nantyglo) was named after Shon Tyffedd a dry wry humourist to was known for miles around.

The coal strike of 1833 caused a great increase in the number of applicants for parish relief, and amounts from 2/- to 10/- were allowed.

Nantyglo Ironworks Band was formed about 1830. It consisted of 13 men and a boy, and was engaged for five days by Co Wood's Election Committee for Brecon in 1831. The bill presented to the committee was as follows: -

To 13 men 5 days at 7/- a-day, £22. 15 s. 0 d. To boy 5 days at 5/- a day, £1. 5 s. 0 d. The bill was paid by cheque drawn on Wilkins and Co., Brecon.

In 1832 Messrs J and C Bailey agreed to loan the parish vestry £200 at five per cent for the building of the work house at Waen Goch. However it was never used as such and was rented as cottages and was eventually sold to Thomas Philip for £150.

During the whole of 1835 only eleven cases of parish relief was allowed by the vestry.

In 1837 a memorial was submitted to the Lord Lieutenant praying him to appointed George Brewer as a magistrate in such a populous district in which numerous offences were '' continually committed with impunity ''.

On December 1st, 1839, the following were excommunicated from Salem Baptist Church by the Church meeting at Blaina Gwent. Thomas Griffiths, Lewis Powell, David Richards, and John Griffiths " because they were Chartists and took cards and went down to Newport, where they were defeated, and some of them killed, although they (and the Chartists) with thousands in number at the West Gate, by only 30 soldiers who conquered them in five minutes ''.

There were three charities in the parish.

1. Anthony Bonner Hall in 1661 dismissed a rent charge out of a parcel of land called Cae Fonwent and Waen Hir Meadows in the Llanwenarth, the yearly sum of 30 shillings for the poor of the parish and 10 shillings yearly for the poor of Aberystruth.

2. Edmonds Charity founded in 1812 from the payment by Richard Bevan the owner of a farm in Aberystruth called Ton-y-Creig. The amount was £1 but the deductions of land tax amounted to seventeen shillings.

3. Andrews Charity, Andrews left the some of £20 in about 1800 to the poor. As a result £1 a year was received by the overseers.

These charities were paid yearly at Christmas. The last soon ended but the former to were paid up to 1887 usually in shillings and mostly to widows.

In 1840 Edward Sachaville Gisborne was instructed to have the parish surveyed and map and the titles apportioned, Gisborne carried out his task for one shilling and three half pence per acre. One of the three maps with their title appointments which he presented to the parish fair Street is now housed in the National Library of Wales.

The total payable titles to the perpetual curate amounted to £300. The total acreage of the parish was 11,788 acres one rod 36 poles, of this 117 acres one rod and 36 poles consisted of roads and waterways and waste, 446 acres of arable land, 4949 acres of meadow or pasture land, 955 acres of woodland, 4640 of mountain land and 80 acres of tramroads and railroads.

Many of the old place names contained in the title apportionment records, have long disappeared. The following are the old names and their modern equivalents: - Waen Logan Common - Barley Field; Cut Shon Leys - Cinder Tips. Lord of the Manor field - Banna; A Hafod y pwll - Hafod y ddol; the Body Field – Croes-y-ceiliog; Waen Isha – West Side; Tyre Shigglannah – Brynteg; Wean Isha – John Morgan’s Lane; Cae Lamasag – Abertillery Road East.
At the funeral of Fred Levick Snr. In 1845 his daughter played the Dead March in Saul on the organ of St. Peter’s.
The salary of the Assistant Overseer was £100 in 1845 for the bond of £500. Among those who took part in the appointing of the assistant Overseer word John Tongue, George Solomon Chilternn and George Underhill.
Ty Mawr in Nantyglo was rated £68 1849 and in that year a rate of 6 d in the pound was levied to reopen the parish roads.
The following items of income and expenditure of an Salem Baptist Chapel Blaina (taken from the Nefydd papers).

1846 To Thomas Evans, sermon and lodgings 2s. 0d
1846 To moving Mr Roberts 1s. 6d
1846 Bible for Chapel £1 4s. 0d
1846 Four gallons of wine £2 16s. 0d
1850 Income from Tea Party £59. 2s 6d
1850 Paid towards the New Chapel. £139. 5s. 0d
1850 Candles 5s. 0d
1851 Repair Rolling Mill £5. 0s. 0d
1853 Paid for nailing boards on the old chapel. 9d
1853 15 dinners to Daniel Harris Castle Hotel 15s. 0d
1857 Cost of entertaining Association
Llewellyn Williams Rolling Mill £3. 2s. 9d
Crown £2. 5s. 0d
D. Harris, Castle £2. 0s. 0d
Mrs Hancock £2. 0s. 0d
Lewis shop. £1. 19s. 11d
1860 Paid to Owen Alan – Lecture 13s. 0d

A Mr. Harrison lived in a one room house Ty Cocking while he had a weighbridge and could weigh the trams as they passed over the bridge while he was in bed.

Expenditure on road maintenance for four weeks ending 11th March 1852.
Charles Simpson 24 days labour at ½ £1. 8s. 0d
William Williamson 15 days labour at ¼ £1. 0s. 0d
Edmund Waters 4 days in the river at 2/- £1. 8s. 0d
Edmund Waters 2 days in the river at 2/- £0. 4s. 0d
Thomas Meyrick 20 days in the river at 2/- £0. 4s. 0d
Edmund Waters 25 perches hedging at 6d. £0. 12s. 6d
Total £5. 12s. 6d

Expenditure 1860 for four weeks ending 1st December.
Manual Labour by day £4. 10s. 0d
£2. 0s. 6d

In 1866 Levick and Simpson Undertook to keep them main road from the Tyler's to the Nantyglo cast house (market roared) at £150 per annum and to find all labour and materials.
In April 1866 Levick and Simpson informed the Highways board that they were about to complete their gasworks and that they intended supply the neighbourhood with gas. The company asked for permission to carry it their names and other pipes and a certain portions of the highways of the parish. The request of course was granted.
In 1866 the village of Abertillery with the surrounding neighbourhood was constituted a special drainage area.
In 1868 the surveyor of the parish was requested to wait upon Mr Bailey and baking to pay the amount of the Highway rates due from the Nantyglo Company to the parish.
In 1869 a house of William Jones, Globe Row, was appointed as a parish a lodging house for the reception of vagrants at a cost of threepence a night, the order for admission to be granted by Sergeant Williams.
It was decided to recognise the efforts made by the Rector D Morgan in obtaining an early delivery of letters in 1870. For many years the postal address of Blaina was Blaina near Abergavenny.
In November 1866 and in December 1868 Mary Jones and Danny Lewis each received a fee of one Guinea from a Highways Board for destroying a fox.
Mary Humphrey's wages and for cleaning the National School 1868 and 1869 were £3 per annum.
In 1874 the election of assistant Overseer was carried out in the following manner. All the rate payers left the room and on returning proceeded to the desk and there stated whom they desired to vote for, James Allen, Post Office Nantyglo received more votes than the three others who applied for the post put together, and so was appointed Overseer at a salary of £130 per annum.
From 1875-1882 the parish vestry met at the Castle Inn at Blaina.

Place Names

The Welsh Wesleyan chapel, Moriah was situated in Club Row. The Methodist chapel is now a garage for the co-operative stores, near by was Chapel Square.
The northern part of Railway Terrace was known as Waen Ebbw Row, the northern part of the Shop Row was Ebbw Row, Henwain Row was known as Mount pleasant, Henwain Terrace as Railway Terrace, Henwain Street as Puddlers Row - Puddlers Row was at the back of Waen Ebbw Row.
For many years there was a footbridge across the Ystruth. The Nantyglo Ironworks was sold as scrap for £2 a ton.
In 1884 the School Board accepted a petition in favour of closing the public houses on Sunday.
In 1886 I W Stone, supplied the school with the best screened local coal at 8/6d a ton.