page_title: Rassau
section_title: Welsh language
hierarchical_section_title: Rassau / Welsh language
caption_attribution_description: Cymraeg: Dyma garreg fedd sy'n dangos y siaredid yr iaith Gymraeg yn Rasa, Glyn Ebwy yn ystod hanner cyntaf yr 20fed ganrif. Tynnwyd y llun hwn ym Mynwent Dukestown, Dukestown, Tredegar yn 2011.English: This gravestone shows the Welsh language was still spoken at Rassau, Ebbw Vale during the first half of the 20th centuary. The picture was taken at Dukestown Cemetary, Dukestown, Tredegar in 2011.
context_page_description: Rassau, sometimes The Rassau, is a village and community located in the historic county of Brecknockshire and the preserved county of Gwent. It currently lies on the northern edge of the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. According to the 2011 census, the population of Rassau is 3,234. Residents often refer to either Old Rassau and New Rassau or Bottom Rassau and Top Rassau to distinguish the different parts of the village.
  Rassau was originally a part of Beaufort and therefore part of the historic county of Brecknockshire. In 1888 it was transferred, together with a number of other industrialized areas, to the historic county of Monmouthshire. The postal address of 6 Tramroad Side, for example, would then have been "6 Tramroad Side, Rassau, Beaufort, Monmouthshire". Note that Ebbw Vale was not part of the address as Rassau and Beaufort are on the other side of the river Ebbw – a distinction often ignored today. On 1 June 2010 Rassau became a community in its own right.
context_section_description: According to the 1991 census, only 107 residents, or 2.7% of the population aged three and over, could speak Welsh. However, in the 2001 census, 281 residents, or 8.8% of the population aged three and over, were recorded as able to speak Welsh. It is likely that Welsh was still the everyday language of a number of residents throughout the early 1900s because in 1909, Theophilus Jones described the neighbouring village of Beaufort as bilingual, the language preference being English. This is supported by the Reverend Peter Williams' monograph, 'The Story of Carmel', published in 1965. He reports that between 1904 and 1906, the change was made to conduct the evening Sunday service in English, whereas previously both the morning and evening services had been in welsh.
caption: Gravestone dating from the first half of the 20th century and inscribed in Welsh
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