Rowde,
Devizes,
Wiltshire,
SN10 1QR.
Tel: 00.
This flight of 16 locks may be the most impressive anywhere on the UK's waterways. They were engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep…
From Merthyr Tydfil,
to Abercynon,
Merthyr Tydfil,
.
Tel: 01685 727 474.
Explore the ‘Trevithick Trail’ that includes the ‘Trevithick Tunnel’, and enjoy a walk through history surrounded by nature’s beauty as it nestles…
Oystermouth Road,
Swansea,
Swansea,
.
Tel: 07785 347 549.
Starts at the ‘National Waterfront Museum’, which is best arrived at by using the Park & Ride service to the city centre. With so much to see among…
Main Street,
Swannington,
Coalville,
Leicestershire,
LE67 8QN.
Tel: 0000.
Part of the Leicester & Swannington Railway, one of England's first, built by Robert Stephenson to carry coal. An engine house at the top housed an engine…
Low Park Wood Caravan Site,
Sedgwick,
Cumbria,
LA8 8AD.
Tel: 00.
Operated from 1857 until 1935. Includes the remains of buildings, mill races, leats and curious earthworks abound. Six incorporating mills, all of which…
Ram Hill,
Coalpit Heath,
Gloucestershire,
BS36 2TY.
Tel: 0000.
This historically important site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the control of English Heritage, which has been largely cleared of vegetation by…
Rockley Lane,
Nr Birdwell,
Yorkshire,
.
Tel: 0000.
The furnace was built around 1700 to smelt the local iron ore. The engine house once housed a Newcomen type pumping engine that kept the iron mine dry.…
Llangollen Canal,
Trevor,
Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych,
LL20 7YG.
Tel: 01978 292 015.
Built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop, it is 307m (1,007ft) long, 3-4m (11ft) wide and 1.6m (5.25ft) deep. It is a navigable aqueduct that carries…
Cyfarthfa,
Merthyr Tydfil,
Merthyr Tydfil,
.
Tel: 01685 727 474.
Located just below the confluence of the Afon Taf Fawr and the Afon Taf Fechan rivers, it is now used as a public footpath. This cast iron aqueduct (1793),…
Pentland Firth coast,
Mey,
Sutherland,
.
Tel: 0000.
On the road sign it’s called Harrow Harbour. It is easy to jump to the conclusion that when Phillip's Harbour was built in the early 1800s it was primarily…
Penyard Road,
Hirwaun,
Rhondda Cynon Taff,
.
Tel: 01874 623 366.
The line dates from the mid-1780s when a horse-drawn tramway was built on a gentle gradient. The horses hauled trams from the quarry to the blast furnaces…
Park Bridge,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
Greater Manchester,
OL6 8AQ.
Tel: 0161 330 9613.
For nearly 200 years, this was a thriving family business. Hundreds of people were employed here and its iron and steel were exported around the world.…
Off Bysing Wood Road,
Faversham,
Kent,
ME13 7UD.
Tel: 03000 422 997.
Once one of the main gunpowder factories in the South East, the park is one of the best places to discover history of gunpowder manufacturing in a tranquil…
Wern Road,
Minera,
Wrexham,
Wrexham,
LL11 3DU.
Tel: 01978 297 460.
Substantial remains of former lead mines and processing works, much of which has been restored on conserved. Cornish engine house. Located in Minera Country…
Ty Mawr Road,
Whitchurch,
Cardiff,
Cardiff,
CF14 2BH.
Tel: 029 2044 5900.
A ‘water lift engine’, the only one left in the world. Installed in the 1790s to a design by Jessop & Rennie, it lifted water from the tailrace exiting…
Kennall Vale Nature Reserve,
Nr Ponsanooth,
Cornwall,
.
Tel: 01872 273 939.
A site of great historical interest having a wealth of industrial archaeological features. A great producer of gunpowder for the mining industry from 1812…
Greenside,
Kendal,
Cumbria,
.
Tel: 00.
Preserved in 2009 and designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Saved from dereliction to become an enduring link between the lime burning industry and…
Off B4518,
Machynlleth,
Dylife,
Powys,
.
Tel: 00.
A large complex with a spectacular waterwheel installed called Rhod Goch or Red Wheel, it had a diameter of 63ft and a width of 31/2ft it was one of the…
Parkend Road,
Coleford,
Gloucester,
Gloucestershire,
GL16 7LX.
Tel: 0000.
It is an internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries, started by David Mushet around…
Off Swansea Road,
Merthyr Tydfil,
Merthyr Tydfil,
.
Tel: 01685 727 371.
The impressive remains that can still be seen are of the six massive blast furnaces. A large brick arch, which is still standing, was built to bridge the…
Nr Windmill End Junction,
Warren's Hall Local Nature Reserve,
Rowley Regis,
West Midlands,
DY2 9HU .
Tel: 0303 040 4040.
(Properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station), and is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade II Listed building built around 1831. It housed a stationary…
Causey Arch,
Stanley,
Co. Durham,
NE16 5EG.
Tel: 0191 372 9100.
Built in 1726, this is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge. This impressive arch, 80ft in height and with a span of 100ft, once carried a horse-drawn…
Off Castle Road,
Chirk,
Wrexham,
LL14 5BS.
Tel: 0000.
21m (70ft) high and 220m (710ft) long aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley and which marks the border between Wales and…