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Cwmbran is a post-war new town at the southern end of the Afon Lwyd Valley, planned from 1949 as a counterpart to the older valley industries and now the largest settlement in Torfaen. Its grid of residential neighbourhoods is interspersed with generous open-space allocations — Llantarnam Grange, Llangybi Open Space and the Cwmbran Country Park corridor carry white clover on amenity grassland, bramble on the scrub margins and sycamore in the shelter belts. Cwmbran's position at the valley mouth means it benefits from the warm air drainage of the Lwyd Valley; colonies in the town can forage both the valley-floor clover and the hedgerow hawthorn of the surrounding farmland. The Gwent Beekeepers' Association covers Cwmbran.

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.