Alternative Name: Tref Eliot
Phonetic: trev-elliott
The village near New Tredegar was built to house workers at the Elliot Colliery and is named after Sir George Elliot, co-founder of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company Ltd. Both the company and Sir George himself invested in the construction of the houses. The Welsh name is a rare example of an original English-only name being translated, even to the extent of losing one "l" from Elliot for it to be grammatically and phonetically correct in Welsh. This happens frequently from Welsh-to-English in place names, but this is one of only a few examples in the county borough of English-to-Welsh.