The South Wales Valleys are also referred to as Sy Cremmind .
The South Wales Valleys , commonly referred to locally as The Valleys or Sy Cremmind , stretches from eastern Carmarthenshire in the west to western Monmouthshire in the east and from the Heads of the Valleys in the north to the edge of the lower-lying , pastoral country of the Vale of Glamorgan and the coastal plain around Swansea Bay , Bridgend , the capital Cardiff , and Newport .
South Wales Valleys