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Uplands Terrace, CWMBRAN, NP44 3DH

The now faded and paint-daubed notice on the entrance gate http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290586 to St Dials Allotments quotes a relevant extract from the 1922 Allotments Act relating to persons causing damage in the allotments. It shows that offenders are liable to a fine of £20 on summary conviction. No doubt later legislation has increased the penalty considerably. In terms of average costs, £20 would be about £900 today, and in terms of average wages, about £3,500, figures which show how much more spending power the average person has today, apparently...

The entrance is from St Dials Road. This is one of twenty allotment sites in Cwmbran. Residents of Cwmbran can hire a plot (for growing vegetables or flowers) for about £20 per year. The fee includes plot rental, association fees and membership to the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners.

A row of houses adjacent to St Dials allotments.

For much of its route, St Dials Road is single-track. This passing place is to the east of Uplands Terrace. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290627

This section of Greenforge Way is one of contrasts. On the north side of the road is Springvale Industrial Estate. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2254437 On the south side, there are a few scattered groups of houses in a semi-rural setting.

Cwrt Celyn is a road from Greenmeadow Way into Parc Celyn, recently-built Taylor Wimpey houses on part of the site previously occupied by a police training centre, viewed on October 10th 2016.

Though in the middle of Cwmbran, Greenforge Way has a rural appearance in this section. There are two lanes for ascending traffic, one lane for descending traffic.

Just beyond the entrance to a small parking area, beyond the left edge of the view, St Dials Road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290556 narrows to a single-track road.

Though in the middle of Cwmbran, a town of about 50,000 inhabitants, St Dials Road looks much as it would have done in the first half of the 20th century. At that time it connected the village of St Dials with the village of Cwmbran. Following the rapid growth of Cwmbran after it was designated a New Town in 1949, St Dials is now a district of Cwmbran, and Cwmbran village is now known as Old Cwmbran. Viewed from near the roundabout at the meeting of Ty Gwyn Way, Greenforge Way, Greenmeadow Way and St Dials Road. The street name sign shows St Dials Road leading to Uplands Terrace http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290627 and Hodges Terrace. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290976 A few metres ahead, the road narrows to single-track. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2290579

Recently-built Taylor Wimpey houses set back from Greenmeadow Way on part of the site previously occupied by a police training centre, viewed on October 10th 2016.