Roundabout Paradise

Official Coat of Arms

A shield divided into quarters: the upper left displaying three interlocking roundabouts argent on a field azure, the upper right featuring a concrete shopping precinct proper, the lower left showing perpetual Welsh drizzle, and the lower right bearing a new town planning document crossed with a traffic cone rampant.

TripAdvisor Review

★★★☆☆ 3/5

"Visited Cwmbran for a family wedding and spent most of Saturday morning trying to navigate the town center's roundabout system. The shopping center is pleasantly retro in that 1960s concrete way, and I did find a decent pasty at Greggs. The Boating Lake is lovely when it's not raining, which unfortunately wasn't during our visit."

Property Listing

Discover this STUNNING example of post-war urban planning excellence! Featuring CONVENIENT access to multiple roundabouts for the modern commuter, CHARMING brutalist architecture throughout, and EXCLUSIVE pedestrianized shopping experiences. The AWARD-WINNING town center offers unparalleled concrete aesthetics with PANORAMIC views of... more concrete!

Twinned With

milton-keynes — Both towns share an unnatural obsession with roundabouts and the aesthetic appeal of concrete.

Supporting Evidence

Cwmbran was designated as Wales' first New Town in 1949 and was specifically designed around a series of roundabouts that now form one of the most bewildering traffic systems in South Wales.