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New Inn is a large residential village immediately north of Pontypool town centre, occupying a gently sloping shelf above the Afon Lwyd where the valley begins to widen toward the open farmland of Llangybi and Mamhilad. The village grew rapidly through the post-war decades and its generous gardens, mature cherry and apple trees and the amenity grassland of New Inn Park provide a varied forage palette through spring and summer. The agricultural land on the northern edge of New Inn — hedged pasture running toward Mamhilad and the Usk valley — gives colonies kept here access to hawthorn and field-bean forage in May and white clover on the improved grassland through June and July. Lime in the shelter belts at the field margins flowers reliably in July.

Sycamore dominates the valley sides from Blaenavon to Cwmbran, providing a consistent May flow throughout the borough. Hawthorn on the valley-side hedges and blackthorn in the scrub edges gives a reliable April supplement. White clover is abundant on Pontypool Park and the numerous amenity green spaces of Cwmbran; the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal corridor through the valley brings meadowsweet, purple loosestrife and willowherb into easy reach. Bilberry and ling heather on the Blorenge mountain and the Blaenafon plateau provide a late-August supplement for colonies on the valley rim, and bramble is dense on the reclaimed tip margins and valley-side forest edges throughout the borough. Lime avenues in Pontypool Park flower reliably in July and represent the most distinctive forage source in the county.