Blaenavon
Blaenavon is a Town in the county of Torfaen (Tor-faen).
Blaenavon postcode: NP4 9EJ
There are great places to visit near Blaenavon.
Blaenavon History
There are some historic monuments around Blaenavon:
- Coed Cefn hillfort
- Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline
- Pwll Du Limestone Quarry & Water Balance Lift
- Engine Pit, Blaenavon
- Pen y Fan Canal Reservoir
- Carn-y-Defaid Round Cairns
- Abergavenny Roman Fort
- Tramroad Bridge, Bailey's Tramroad, Govilon
- Blaenavon Ironworks
- Dyne Steel Incline
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Northern Entrances & Site of Lower Rank
- Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge
- Gilwern Embankment
- Coed Pentwyn Hillfort
- Defended Enclosure 350m NNW of Ty-Uchaf
- British Colliery Pumping Engine House
- Abergavenny Bridge
- Clydach Coal Level
- St. Faith's Churchyard Cross, Llanfoist
- Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen Taro
- Abergavenny Castle
- Area of Conventual Buildings, St Mary's Priory
- Great Oak Road standing stone
- Crickhowell Castle
- Air Furnace at British Ironworks
- Maes-Celyn Castle Mound
- Garn Road Powder House 300m ENE of Ashgrove Bungalow
- Ffynnon Angoeron Holy Well
- Llanwenarth Churchyard Cross-Base
- Clydach Railroad Section near Brynmawr
- Iron and coal patching at Pen-ffordd-goch, Blaenafon
- Abersychan Railway
- Iron Ore Scours at Upper Race, Pontypool
- Castle Arnold
- Garn Coch
- The Graig Settlement
- Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard
- Coal and Iron Ore Workings West of Abergavenny Road, Blaenavon
- St Illtyd Castle Mound
- Standing Stone N of Golden Grove
- Cwrt-y-Gollen Standing Stone
- Clydach Ironworks (remains) and Smart's Bridge
- Blorenge Tunnel, Hill's Tramroad
- Crickhowell Bridge
- Battle Tump
- Hen Castell
- Mynydd Pen-cyrn round cairn
- Mynydd Llangattock round cairn
- St. Bartholomew's Churchyard Cross, Llanover
- Blorenge Quarries Tramroad
- Disgwylfa Tramroads
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Southern Approach
- Ffawyddog Gaer
- Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad Incline
- Old Coal Pits, Blaenavon
- Limekiln and Quarries at Craig-yr-Hafod
- Garnddyrys Ironworks (Site of) and adjacent Tramway
- Marine Colliery Pumping Engine
- Cairn on the Blorenge
- Llangattock Tramroad Inclines
- Mynydd Pen-y-fal round cairns
- Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits
- Gwernvale chambered cairn
- Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of)
- Iron Furnace SW of Clydach
- Twr Pen-cyrn round cairns
- Hill's Tramroad Inclines, Llanfoist
- Cwmbyrgwm Colliery
- Waun Cyrn round cairn
- Porth Mawr
History of Blaenavon
When the Hospital closed it became a nursing home and in 1995 a Grade 2 Listed Building. Left empty following its closure in 2006, badly vandalised and stripped of its lead work, slate Roof and original interiors, the building was placed on the At Risk register. The House was sold in 2017 and is currently undergoing restoration as a family home once again.
