Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clydach Coal Level
Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
A scheduled monument in Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, recorded as Tramroad (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Tramroad
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 20 May 1998
- Community
- Brynmawr
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.80244, -3.16103
- SAM number
- MM264
- Cadw record number
- 3778
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a tramroad, dating to the 18th century. The tramroad is connected to a pair of coal levels and the Clydach Railroad. The levels were owned and operated by the Brecon Boat Company, the principal trader on the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, to which the Clydach Railroad was completed in 1795. They were granted permission to build a branch from Clydach Bridge to their new colliery nearby in 1812, at a cost of £75. The line was built across part of the River Clydach, which was diverted through a tunnel to allow free access to two level mouths. The tunnel for the river, the tramroad embankment, and the two levels remain. Both are rock cut and unlined, but the eastern level was refronted as part of the retaining wall of the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway in 1862.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the development of industrial transportation in the 18th and 19th century. The track bed, bridges, drainage systems, embankments and revetments may all be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to construction techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Clydach Railroad Section near BrynmawrTramroadunder 1 mi
- The VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone at Pont-gamTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Boiler House at Dunlop Semtex FactoryIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.