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Neil Kinnock, a former leader of the Labour Party, once had a house in Pontllanfraith.
Another settlement in South Wales where Kinnock has lived in the past is Peterston-super-Ely.
The celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal spent a lot of his childhood in Lacey Green, but is best known as the proprietor of the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire.
Ruislip lends its name to the title of the 1970s novel Tropic of Ruislip, written by Welsh author Leslie Thomas.
Thomas was educated at Kingston Technical School in Kingston upon Thames.
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, the most powerful woman in early medieval proto-England, died at her capital Tamworth in 918 and was buried in Gloucester.