Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Abersychan is an urban district in Wales, in the northern parliamentary division of Torfaen near to Newport It lies in the narrow upper valley of the Afon Lwyd on the eastern edge of the great coal and iron mining district of Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, and its large industrial population is occupied in the mines and ironworks. The neighbourhood is wild and mountainous. This article was originally based on material from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Update as needed. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.