The Blorenge or simply Blorenge (; ) is a prominent hill which overlooks the valley of the River Usk in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales.

Llanfoist Wharf, at a very picturesque location, a quarter of the way up the Blorenge, is now owned by a narrowboat hire company.

Situated at the confluence of a tributary stream, the Gavenny, and the River Usk, it is almost surrounded by two mountains – the Blorenge ( 559 m ) and the Sugar Loaf ( 596 m ) – and five hills: Ysgyryd Fawr ( The Skirrid ), Ysgyryd Fach ( Skirrid Fach ), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as " Llanwenarth Breast ".

The village is located beneath the massive Blorenge Mountain, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park, rising 1, 838 feet above sea level over the vale of the River Usk.

There are a number of proper nouns which rhyme or nearly rhyme with orange, including The Blorenge, a mountain in Wales, and Gorringe, a surname.

The Blorenge is composed in layer-cake fashion of a number of different rock types.

A small glacier nourished by windblown snow from the plateau excavated the hollow on the eastern side of Blorenge which is known as The Punchbowl.

Blorenge is situated within both the Brecon Beacons National Park and the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site.

There is a hillwalking trail that runs around Blorenge and is a very popular destination for tourists and walkers alike.

Some come to see Harry Llewellyn's famous showjumping horse, Foxhunter which won Britain's only Gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics is buried near to the Blaenavon to Llanover road on Blorenge with a car park sited here in his honour.

There are extensive abandoned workings for limestone around the northern and eastern rim of Blorenge.

* www. geograph. co. uk: photos of the Blorenge

The line was retained for wagon storage until 1953, and around 1950, a temporary siding was laid in connection with opencast workings on the Blorenge, branching east roughly at the point where the Milfraen Colliery branch had previously branched west.

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The hall stands on pillars, leaving a sheltered area beneath for a market or other municipal functions, and overlooks the main market square.

White's 1842 Directory described Spilsby as being " a small, but thriving and well-built market town, pleasantly seated on an eminence, which overlooks an extensive tract of marshes and fens.

Linthouse also runs an annual Christmas market in the " Tunnel Park " which overlooks the Clyde Tunnel.

Tor Royal Lane is a dead end road which leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, about 3 km or 2 miles to the south-east, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles.

North Hessary Tor overlooks the town.

The earliest monument in the town is the motte-and-bailey castle, now known as Millmount Fort, which overlooks the town from a bluff on the south bank of the Boyne, and which was probably erected by the Norman Lord of Meath, Hugh de Lacy sometime before 1186.

From 1803 to 1844 the British made the town a major naval port and built fortifications on Morne Fortune, the mountain that overlooks this important harbour.

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The Château de Falaise ( 12th-13th century ), which overlooks the town from a high crag (), was formerly the seat of the Dukes of Normandy.

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The town has an elevation of and overlooks the Milk River Valley.

The highest point in Webster is above sea level, on an unnamed summit near the center of town that overlooks the eastern shore of Lake Winnepocket.

The eastern part of the town is built on a high bluff that overlooks Sandy Hook and the Atlantic Ocean.

Shequaga Falls overlooks the town of Montour Falls The main attraction is a 150 ' waterfall located on the west side of the village.

Cricket, football and rugby union teams play at Tower Fields, which overlooks the town and the International Eisteddfod field and pavilion.

The school is located on the top of Terrace Street and overlooks the town.

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The town overlooks where the Atlantic Ocean and Raritan Bay meet at Sandy Hook, and its hills mark the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the U. S. south of Maine.

His gravesite overlooks the town.

His gravesite overlooks the town.

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There is a 15th Century castle ruin that overlooks the town, but the name predates even this ancient fort.

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Farnham Castle overlooks the town.

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It overlooks the town square and a park which was inaugurated on 28 August 1949.