Ystalyfera
Ystalyfera is a Village in the county of Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot).
Ystalyfera postcode: SA9 2AD
There are great places to visit near Ystalyfera.
Ystalyfera History
There are some historic monuments around Ystalyfera:
- Coed Ddu ring cairn
- Cwm Clydach settlement
- Cwm Twrch settlement and limekiln
- Hut Circle West of Saith Maen
- Tinplate works at Aberdulais Falls
- Carn Pen-y-Clogau
- Pen-Rhiw-Angharad Round Cairns
- Standing Stones 300m W of Cefncelfi
- Lorfa stone circle
- Carn Pen-Rhiw-Ddu
- Blaen-Cwmbach Camp
- Carreg Bica Standing Stone
- House Platforms West of Dyffryn Wood
- Cribarth Limestone Quarries and Tramroads
- Nant Tawe Fechan Burnt Mound
- Three Round Cairns on Carn Caca
- Dorwen standing stone
- Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm
- Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd Drumau
- Scott's Pit Engine House & Traces of Ancillary Buildings
- Cefn Morfydd Dyke & Earthwork
- Llwyncwmstabl round cairn
- Banwen Gwys Round Cairns
- Carn Fadog round cairn
- Neath Abbey Ironworks Dam
- Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad Incline
- Saith Maen
- Pont Clydach settlement
- Lefel Fawr Coal Adit
- Blaen-Cwmbach Earthwork
- Aberdulais Aqueduct
- Ynysgedwyn Colliery, Fan House
- Cairn on Mynydd-March-Hywel
- Remains of Lock and Dry Dock at Pantyffynnon
- Tramroad at Ystradgynlais
- Canal Boat at Aberdulais Basin
- Cilybebyll Auxiliary Unit Operational Base
- Bryn Llechwen ring cairn
- Carn Cornel Round Cairn
- Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-Alltwen
- Abercrave Ironworks
- Crimea Colliery & Canal Quay
- Hirfynydd Roman Earthwork
- Mynydd March Hywel Round Cairn
- Coed Ddu house platforms and enclosure
- Bwlch y Ddeuwynt Round Cairn
- Remains of Blast Furnace at Melin Court
- Blaen y Cylchau Deserted Rural Settlement
- Canal Aqueduct over the River Twrch, Ystalyfera
- Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway (Parsons Folly) Section on Cefn Morfudd
- Mynydd y Garth Cairn
- Moel Gornach settlement
- Three Round Cairns on Mynydd Drumau
- Cwm Twrch settlement
History of Ystalyfera
In 1838 a furnace was built by James Palmer Budd at Ystalyfera and from this grew the iron and tinplate works which by 1863 was described as ‘the largest tinplate manufactory in the world’. A new cold-blast process was successfully introduced here and, despite some early crises, the works prospered. By the mid-1850s there were forty furnaces for puddling and balling in operation and sixteen tin mills and houses. The output of iron increased from the 4,893 tons of 1843 to 29,828 tons in 1858. The works continued to grow during the 1860s and reached peak production in 1872 with the sale of 182,000 boxes of tinplate.