Industry

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Early Industry

• The early Iron industry across the Heads of the Valley

Industrial Remnants - Page 2

• Nantyglo Company Shop & Casting House

• Horeb Chapel

• Rehobeth Chapel

South Wales Iron Industry

• The history of the South Wales Iron Industry

Semtex - Rubber Factory

• Building the factory

• Demolishing the factory

• The Boilerhouse

• Semtex documents PDF

Industrial Remnants - Page 1

• Bell Pits, Scouring Ponds,

Finger Tips, Dukes Table,

Dried-up Ponds, Coal Levels

From Semtex to Lakeside

• Demolishing the factory

• Building Lakeside Retail Park and housing

Other Industries

• Brynmawr Furniture

• Boot Factory

• Tuf Footwear

Clydach Railroad

• The Clydach Gorge – a natural route between Coalfield and Usk Valley

Crawshay Baileys Tramroad

• Built in 1830 to connect to his Nantyglo Ironworks with Darren Cilau Quarries above Llangattock

Nantyglo Round Towers

• Ironmaster Joseph Bailey

built them in 1816 to protect his Ty-Mawr mansion

Clydach Ironworks

• Established in the late 18th Century near the site of an earlier works and forge

The Hafod Arch

• Part of the Clydach Railroad in the Clydach Gorge and now preserved as a heritage feature

GENERAL INFORMATION