Exploring our industrial heritage

This is the site of Garnddyrys Forge, for 40 years in the nineteenth century the place where pig iron from Blaenavon Ironworks was processed and made in iron bars and rails which were transported by tramroad and canal to Newport and on to markets worldwide. This was one of the first such works in the UK. 

A fascinating walk, on which we also saw evidence of different types of past coal mining. 

Oh, and learnt that the words miner and collier come from Welsh: a miner was an iron worker; a collier one who worked coal.