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N 51° 40.923 W 002° 58.755
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Location: Llandegfedd Reservoir, Pontypool, South Wales.

A Site of Special Scientific Interest, is set in the rolling landscape of South East Wales and supplies drinking water to most of the area of South Gwent. Water is pumped up from the near by River Usk and contained in this flooded valley.
The impoundment contains a good head of trout and coarse fish. The British record weight pike of almost 46lb has been caught from this reservoir. 

A small gargoyle which being made from Bath Stone has eroded on the west tower of St. Woolas Cathedral, Newport, South Wales. There is a smaller one on the same side with two more on the east side and one on the northern entrance side 

N 51° 36.443 W 002° 57.166
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Location: Stone bridge crossing the River Usk at Caerleon, South Wales.
The bridge built in 1806 to replace the wooden bridge that stood just upstream is made from a type of red sandstone. There has been a river crossing at this point since Roman times.
The bridge has three arches and is two lanes wide. 

N 51° 34.686 W 002° 42.891
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Second Severn Crossing. location at the start of the Bristol Channel UK.

Completed in 1996 the Second Severn Crossing (or the New Severn Bridge)was built to carry the increase in road transport which was overloading the old bridge. The toatal bridge length is 5.128km but the suspended span length is 456m with a pylon height of 137m 

N 51° 36.585 W 002° 38.375
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Location: The Old (or first) Severn Bridge which links England to Wales (via the Wye bridge).
The Severn Bridge was opened in 1966 to replace the ferry service crossing from Aust Cliff to Beachley Peninsula, 8 miles upstream from Avonmouth. At this point the River Severn is almost exactly 1 mile wide at high water and the bridge creates a direct link for the M4 motorway into Wales. The main span is 3,240 feet in length. 

N 51° 32.444 W 002° 59.693
Location: The mouth of the Usk river at Newport, South Wales.

In 1821, it was on an island where the Severn and Usk ran into the sea. Since then, land has been reclaimed and although on one side the loudest sound is of the sea when the tide (second fastest in the world) comes racing in to the foot of the building.