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Blaenavon World Heritage Centre
The Blaenavon World Heritage Centre is the ideal starting point for your visit to the area. Located in the sympathetically restored former St. Peter’s School, it provides an overview of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape.
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Blaenavon Ironworks (Cadw)
Blaenavon changed the world. These hills on the edge of the Brecon Beacons were rich with coal, limestone and iron ore – the fuel of the Industrial Revolution. From here Wales heaved and belched and blasted itself onto the global stage.
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Blaenavon Workmen's Hall
The refurbished Blaenavon Workmen’s' Hall is a fine example of a Valleys miners’ institute housing a 380 seat auditorium, cinema, snooker room, bar and meeting room.
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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway
The line is the highest and steepest in the country, climbing through the Blaenavon World heritage site and the wild and dramatic moorland landscape under the brooding Coity mountain
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The Blaenafon Cheddar Company
Blaenafon cheddar is a family run business situated in the heart of the Blaenavon world heritage site.
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Blaenafon Heritage & Cordell Museum
The Blaenafon Community Heritage & Cordell Museum shows the fascinating history of the town from the early days of the Industrial Revolution, through to the modern day World Heritage Site.
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Rhymney Brewery Visitor Centre
The Rhymney Brewery, Dowlais has taken up the most famous name in Welsh brewing to emphasise the fact that they are bringing back the old traditional flavours using modern methods and organic natural ingredients.
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Big Pit National Coal Museum
Discover Wales' rich mining heritage in this award-winning interactive museum is set in the Blaenafon Industrial Landscape and designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Goytre Wharf
Goytre Wharf is located on the canal with over 200 years of industrial heritage to discover. The site is now developed for leisure within an area of outstanding natural beauty, but still retaining many of its historic features.
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