Editing Abertillery (section)

===From the mid-nineteenth century===
====Industrialisation====
The area's first deep coal mine was sunk in 1843.

=====Collieries in Abertillery=====
* [[Six Bells Colliery]]

====Abertillery Institute====
The first reading rooms were set up in Abertillery in 1856. However, when [[Thomas Wilde Powell|Thomas Powell]] took over the Tillery Colliery in 1882 he made a commitment to establish educational facilities for his workers.<ref name="OBA">{{cite web |title=Powell's Tillery Miner's Institute – A History |url=https://outoftheblueartifacts.com/powells-tillery-miners-institute-a-history/ |website=Out Of The Blue Artifacts |access-date=7 October 2018}}</ref>

====Local government====
Formed in 1877, Abertillery Urban District Council incorporated the adjoining smaller communities of Six Bells, Cwmtillery, Brynithel, Aberbeeg and Llanhilleth. The population of this conurbation climbed to almost 40,000 in 1931 making it the second largest town in Monmouthshire.<ref name="visionofbritain.org.uk"/> The council was abolished in 1974 as part of major UK wide local government reorganisation.