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The Forest Children’s Centre is located in Duffryn, adjacent to Duffryn Infant School. Duffryn is a large housing estate in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales, comprising a large portion of the Tredegar Park electoral district (ward).
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Tredegar House
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Built on land belonging to Tredegar House, the estate was completed in 1978 and at the time won several awards for its design. The layout of the estate, as viewed from above, is that of large terraces undulating around a central wooded area.
Despite the relative recent development of
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Duffryn Estate
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the estate, the name Duffryn is an ancient name for the area. Duffryn is an anglicised version of the Welsh Dyffryn, meaning large U-shaped valley.
As well as the Infant and Junior schools to which the Forest Children’s Centre is attached, Duffryn is also home to two of Newport's largest secondary schools — Duffryn High School and St. Joseph's RC High School. In 2006, Duffryn High School was the filming location of the Doctor Who episode School Reunion, filmed in late summer 2005.
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