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Former Navigation Colliery Middle Revetment Wall

Crumlin, Caerphilly, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Navigation Colliery Crumlin, Crumlin, Caerphilly, designated on 28 September 1994.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Former Navigation Colliery Middle Revetment Wall, Crumlin, Caerphilly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Industrial
Date of designation
28 September 1994
Locality
Navigation Colliery Crumlin
Community
Crumlin
Unitary authority
Caerphilly
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.68317, -3.14280
Cadw reference
16427

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

Extends from S of the former Baths which lie N of the colliery complex, in front of the Powder Store, to N of the N Winding Engine House.

History

Navigation Colliery Crumlin was built by the firm of Partridge Jones and Company between 1907 and 1911. The firm was one of the largest coal combines in S Wales, owning 9 collieries in the Gwent valleys. Navigation Colliery was a show-pit of the period with high quality buildings and up-to-date machinery. One of the earliest collieries in S Wales to be built in brick rather than local stone with brick dressings. Closed 1967 and disused since.

Exterior

Revetment wall of rubble sandstone increasing in height from S to N as the sloping road to the lower level of the colliery falls beside it. It has the remains of pulleys and fittings and is surmounted by a fence of standard rails with winding cables passed between them, no longer intact.

Reason for designation

Included for group value with other listed former colliery buildings in this important colliery complex.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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