The South Wales Valleys stretch to a western place.
Commonly referred to locally as The Valleys -LRB- Y Cymoedd -RRB- , they stretch 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 .	Carmarthenshire	Carmarthenshire	Monmouthshire	Monmouthshire (historic)	Heads of the Valleys	Heads of the Valleys	pastoral	pastoralism	Vale of Glamorgan	Vale of Glamorgan	Swansea Bay	Swansea Bay	Bridgend	Bridgend	Cardiff	Cardiff	Newport	Newport, Wales
