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:
- Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad Incline
- Llanwenarth Churchyard Cross-Base
- Crickhowell Bridge
- Clydach Ironworks (remains) and Smart's Bridge
- Engine Pit, Blaenavon
- Abergavenny Bridge
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Northern Entrances & Site of Lower Rank
- Hen Castell
- Blorenge Quarries Tramroad
- Castle Arnold
- Mynydd Llangattock round cairn
- Coal and Iron Ore Workings West of Abergavenny Road, Blaenavon
- Garn Coch
- Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge
- Iron Ore Scours at Upper Race, Pontypool
- Coed Pentwyn Hillfort
- Battle Tump
- St. Faith's Churchyard Cross, Llanfoist
- Mynydd Pen-cyrn round cairn
- Pwll Du Limestone Quarry & Water Balance Lift
- Clydach Coal Level
- St Illtyd Castle Mound
- Iron and coal patching at Pen-ffordd-goch, Blaenafon
- Old Coal Pits, Blaenavon
- Tramroad Bridge, Bailey's Tramroad, Govilon
- Coed Cefn hillfort
- Abergavenny Castle
- Air Furnace at British Ironworks
- Clydach Railroad Section near Brynmawr
- Iron Furnace SW of Clydach
- Ffynnon Angoeron Holy Well
- Gwernvale chambered cairn
- St. Bartholomew's Churchyard Cross, Llanover
- Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits
- Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of)
- Area of Conventual Buildings, St Mary's Priory
- The Graig Settlement
- Llangattock Tramroad Inclines
- Abergavenny Roman Fort
- Blorenge Tunnel, Hill's Tramroad
- Gilwern Embankment
- Maes-Celyn Castle Mound
- Marine Colliery Pumping Engine
- Cwmbyrgwm Colliery
- Disgwylfa Tramroads
- Standing Stone N of Golden Grove
- Carn-y-Defaid Round Cairns
- Mynydd Pen-y-fal round cairns
- Crickhowell Castle
- Garnddyrys Ironworks (Site of) and adjacent Tramway
- Blaenavon Ironworks
- Defended Enclosure 350m NNW of Ty-Uchaf
- Limekiln and Quarries at Craig-yr-Hafod
- Abersychan Railway
- Great Oak Road standing stone
- Dyne Steel Incline
- Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard
- Cairn on the Blorenge
- Twr Pen-cyrn round cairns
- Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline
- Hill's Tramroad Inclines, Llanfoist
- Pen y Fan Canal Reservoir
- Ffawyddog Gaer
- Waun Cyrn round cairn
- Cwrt-y-Gollen Standing Stone
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Southern Approach
- British Colliery Pumping Engine House
- Porth Mawr
- Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen Taro
- Garn Road Powder House 300m ENE of Ashgrove Bungalow
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.
