Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Date of Inscription: 2000
Criteria: (iii)(iv) Blaenavon,40 km NE of Cardiff, Wales N51 46 35 W3 5 17 Ref: 984 |
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Brief Description
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, workers' homes, and the social infrastructure of their community.
Blaenavon Big Pit
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Justification for Inscription
Criterion iii The Blaenavon landscape constitutes an exceptional illustration in material form of the social and economic structure of 19th century industry. Criterion iv The components of the Blaenavon industrial landscape together make up an outstanding and remarkably complete example of a 19th century industrial landscape.
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