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Croesyceiliog is a residential village on the eastern edge of Cwmbran, set on gently rising ground between the Lwyd Valley floor and the farmland of the Llangybi and Llandegfedd plateau. The village has a more open character than the valley-bottom settlements, with larger garden plots and access to the hedgerow network of the surrounding farmland. Llandegfedd Reservoir, a few kilometres to the north-east, brings a varied shoreline and rough grassland that supplements local forage; hawthorn hedges on the lanes towards Llangybi provide reliable spring forage. White clover on the sports and amenity ground is abundant from June. The Gwent Beekeepers' Association covers Croesyceiliog and the eastern Cwmbran villages.

Sycamore dominates the valley sides from Blaenavon to Cwmbran, providing a consistent May flow throughout the borough. Hawthorn on the valley-side hedges and blackthorn in the scrub edges gives a reliable April supplement. White clover is abundant on Pontypool Park and the numerous amenity green spaces of Cwmbran; the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal corridor through the valley brings meadowsweet, purple loosestrife and willowherb into easy reach. Bilberry and ling heather on the Blorenge mountain and the Blaenafon plateau provide a late-August supplement for colonies on the valley rim, and bramble is dense on the reclaimed tip margins and valley-side forest edges throughout the borough. Lime avenues in Pontypool Park flower reliably in July and represent the most distinctive forage source in the county.