Rhyuney, a town of Monmouthshire, on the river Rhyuney (running to the Bristol Channel near Cardiff), 2½ miles W. of Tredegar. It is the seat of ironworks. Pop. (1861) 7630; (1891) 7733.
Rhyuney,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 698
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