www.historic-ireland.com
The county of Torfaen, Wales
BLAENAVON INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE
A UK WORLD HERITAGE SITE
In December 2000 UNESCO inscribed the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape as a World Heritage Site for the following reason: "The area around Blaenavon bears eloquent and exceptional testimony to 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 be seen, including coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, the homes of workers, and the social infrastructure of their community.”
Today Blaenavon proudly tells the story of her past in a variety of ways. Come and explore - a truly warm welcome awaits. The Industrial Landscape extends into some of the finest and most spectacular scenery in Wales. It covers an area of 33sq km, nearly half of which lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park. Its many attractions provide an enriching experience, with a range of attractions and landscape ideal for walkers and cyclists.
Blaenavon has numerous places of interest for you to visit, these include the World Heritage Centre, Big Pit: National Coal Museum and Blaenavon Ironworks.
The Tourist Information Centre is situated in the Ironworks Museum. A comprehensive stock of local attraction leaflets and brochures are displayed. The Centre, which has a small gift shop, also operates a bed booking service. The Tourist Information Centre issues admission tickets to the Ironworks Museum and also stocks a wide range of CADW leaflets. Guided tours are also booked by way of the Centre. For visitors with ancestral connections to Blaenavon a genealogy service is also available. A car park for wheelchair users is situated within the Ironworks Museum and is accessed by the main gate. Toilet facilities are also available for persons with a disability.
Where to stay and things to do in Torfaen
Hotels | Bed and Breakfast | Places to Visit | Museums and Art Galleries | Railways | World Heritage Sites | Tourist Information Centres | Torfaen Towns | Historic Torfaen
Selected Torfaen hotels - Please Refresh for another random Hotel list
Big Pit: National Coal Museum, Blaenavon
Click for More hotels in Torfaen
Click For List of all UK Counties
Explore Torfaen Towns
Blaenavon | Cwmbran | Ponthir | Pontypool |
County Links
England
Bath | Bedfordshire | Berkshire | Birmingham | Bristol | Buckinghamshire | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cleveland | Cornwall | Cumbria | Derbyshire | Devon | Dorset | Durham County | Essex | Gloucestershire | Hampshire | Herefordshire | Hertfordshire | Isle of Wight | Kent | Lancashire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | Liverpool | London | Manchester | Merseyside | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | Northumberland | Nottinghamshire | Oxford | Oxfordshire | Rutland | Shropshire | Somerset | Staffordshire | Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | Tyne and Wear | Warwickshire | West Midlands | Wiltshire | Worcestershire | York | Yorkshire |
Scotland
Aberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll, Mull, Bute | Ayrshire | Dumfries and Galloway | Dunbartonshire | Dundee | Edinburgh | Falkirk | Fife | Glasgow | Highlands and Islands | Isle of Arran | Kincardineshire | Lanarkshire | Lothian | Moray | Orkney Islands | Perth and Kinross | Renfrewshire | Scottish Borders | Shetland Islands | Stirlingshire |
Wales
Anglesey (Isle of) | Bridgend | Caerphilly | Cardiff | Carmarthenshire | Ceredigion | Conwy | Denbighshire | Flintshire | Gwent | Gwynedd | Merthyr Tydfil | Monmouthshire | Neath Port Talbot | Newport | Pembrokeshire | Powys | Rhondda | Swansea | Torfaen | Vale of Glamorgan | Wrexham |
Northern Ireland
Antrim | Belfast | Down | Fermanagh | Londonderry | Tyrone |
Ireland
Cavan | Clare | Cork | Donegal | Dublin | Galway | Kerry | Kildare | Kilkenny | Leitrim | Limerick | Mayo | Meath | Sligo | Tipperary | Waterford | Westmeath | Wexford | Wicklow |
The Channel Islands and The Isle of Man
