Pontypool
Pontypool is a Town in the county of Torfaen (Tor-faen).
Pontypool postcode: NP4 8AT
There are great places to visit near Pontypool.
Pontypool History
There are some historic monuments around Pontypool:
- Castle Arnold
- Caerleon Civil Settlement: Area under Broadway Playing Fields
- Engine Pit, Blaenavon
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Grounds of Health Clinic
- Iron and coal patching at Pen-ffordd-goch, Blaenafon
- Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Pits
- Caerleon Civil Settlement: Site of Roman Building SE of Castle Street
- St. Bridget's Churchyard Cross, Llansantffraed
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Northern Entrances & Site of Lower Rank
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Goldcroft Common
- Great Bulmore Roman settlement
- Llanderfel Church
- Carn-y-Defaid Round Cairns
- Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad Incline
- Former Dam of Cwmcarn Canal Reservoir
- Cwmbyrgwm Colliery
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Grounds of the Croft Nursing Home
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Area between Priory Hotel and Priory Lodge
- Cairns West of Craig y Dyffryn
- Dyne Steel Incline
- St Mary's Yard Castle Mound
- Garn Road Powder House 300m ENE of Ashgrove Bungalow
- Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge
- Churchyard Cross
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Former Ambulance Station Field
- Round Barrow 180m North of Ty-Canol
- Blaenavon Ironworks
- Llanvihangel Nigh Usk Churchyard Cross
- Twm-Barlwm Mound and Bailey Castle
- Ffynnon Angoeron Holy Well
- Round Cairn 315m S of Upper Wenallt
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Area behind Caerleon House
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Field SE of Broadway
- St. Bartholomew's Churchyard Cross, Llanover
- Llantarnam Abbey Tithe Barn
- House Platforms to W of Mynydd Machen
- St. Peter's Churchyard Cross, Henllys
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Former Garden of The Firs
- Abersychan Railway
- Castle Mound E of Graig Wood
- Garnddyrys Ironworks (Site of) and adjacent Tramway
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Area of Myrtle Cottage Barracks
- Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Car Park and Garden of Endowed School, North of Broadway
- Coal and Iron Ore Workings West of Abergavenny Road, Blaenavon
- Candwr Camp
- Pwll Du Limestone Quarry & Water Balance Lift
- Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Southern Approach
- Caerleon Castle Mound
- Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen Taro
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Grounds of Museum
- Iron Ore Scours at Upper Race, Pontypool
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Area off White Hart Lane
- St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, Llanfair Cilgedyn
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: School Fields
- Caerleon Civil Settlement
- Limekiln and Quarries at Craig-yr-Hafod
- British Colliery Pumping Engine House
- Begwns Round Barrow, Mynydd Machen
- Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline
- Llangattock Nigh Usk Churchyard Cross
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Back Garden of No 4 Museum Street
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Grounds of St Cadoc's Home
- Penrhos Camp (civil war earthworks)
- Lodge Wood Camp
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Old Vicarage Garden
- Caerleon Amphitheatre
- Cairn on the Blorenge
- Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of)
- Medieval Tower at Hanbury Arms
- Caerleon Legionary Fortress: Town Hall Park, High Street
- Air Furnace at British Ironworks
- Old Coal Pits, Blaenavon
History of Pontypool
The Afon Lwyd valley, in which Pontypool is situated, provided an abundance of resources for the manufacturing of iron, including coal, iron ore, charcoal and waterpower. The wider technological developments of the Tudor period, such as the utilisation of blast furnaces to produce iron, allowed for the greater exploitation of the mineral resources of south Wales. A blast furnace was in use at Monkswood, near Pontypool, from as early as 1536 and was followed by the erection of other blast furnaces in the area surrounding Pontypool. An ironworks was established in what later became Pontypool Park in c. 1575. Forges, where cast iron could be converted into wrought iron, were also developed and included Town Forge within Pontypool, which was in operation during the last quarter of the sixteenth century, and the Osborne Forge, near Pontnewynydd, which produced the renowned Osmond iron.