Why was blaenavon ironworks built in blaenavon

From here Wales heaved and belched and blasted itself onto the global stage. Where: Blaenavon. Type: Historic Site. Attraction information. Get in touch Location:. Social Social media navigation facebook. Take a look around. Pause video. Blaenavon Ironworks. The partnership engages with the wider community, maintaining regular contact with Blaenavon Town Council, voluntary groups, business leaders, residents and the local tourist association. To ensure effective stakeholder participation within the open landscape, a Commons Forum has been established.

There is a need to ensure continuing effective development control within the property and its setting in order that any development does not impact adversely on the relationship between attributes and the surrounding landscape in terms of the integrity of the property and its ability, as a cultural landscape, to convey its Outstanding Universal Value.

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Without With. Blaenavon Industrial Landscape The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. Integrity The boundary of the World Heritage property encompasses the major monuments, the mining settlement as well as the surrounding valley landscape with its extensive remains of coal and ore mining, quarrying, primitive iron railways, and canals and thus includes all the key attributes of this early industrial period during the formative years of the Industrial Revolution.

Authenticity The key attributes are clearly visible. Cardiff Swansea. Carew Castle Castle. Caldicot Castle Castle. Pembroke Castle Castle. Carew Cross Historic Building. Penmon Priory Abbey. Toggle navigation. Best of Britain. Blaenavon Ironworks. The Ironworks retains its original furnaces, cast houses and restored ironworkers' cottages.

History The ironworks at Blaenavon opened in The ironworks were an ambitious project, built by a trio of industrial entrepreneurs from the West Midlands, banded together under the name of Hill and Company.

The ironworks cost GBP 40, to build, an enormous cost for the late 18th century. For the time period the new works was a technological marvel, on the very cutting edge of industrial technique for extracting iron from ore. Venue hire. This site is available to hire for events, filming and exhibitions. Other places nearby. Tretower Court and Castle.

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