Aberdulais Tinworks & Waterfall 2025
Neath Port Talbot
Venallt Ironworks 2025
Surviving features of the ironworks include the blowing-house engine, part of the cast-house, the base of the stack and the furnace walls. The Ironworks was constructed in circa 1839-42 to smelt iron with anthracite by means of the hot-blast process that had recently been introduced at Ynysgedwyn.
Open Days & Times
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The furnaces were out of use by 1854 and the site was re-used for a patent fuel works which led to their demolition. The office building is now a farmhouse. An interesting survival is a furnace bear with two water-cooled tuyeres embedded in it.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance and illustrate the knowledge and understanding of the development of the iron industry.
