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Latitude: 51.7597 / 51°45'35"N
Longitude: -3.7878 / 3°47'15"W
OS Eastings: 276709
OS Northings: 208294
OS Grid: SN767082
Mapcode National: GBR H3.09ZD
Mapcode Global: VH5G8.91DB
Plus Code: 9C3RQ656+VV
Entry Name: Slag wall at W end of Glanyravon
Listing Date: 4 November 1993
Last Amended: 20 December 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11212
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300011212
Location: Situated at the W end and the N side of Glanyravon some 75m N of the Afon Tawe and just E of the roundabout on the A4067
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Ystalyfera
Community: Ystalyfera
Locality: Glanyravon
Built-Up Area: Ystradgynlais
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Wall
Slag wall possibly C19. The blast furnaces of the Ystalfera Ironworks were just to the NW. Built in 1838 the anthracite ironworks closed in 1885. Tinplate production continued until after the Second World War.
Wall of coarsed slag blocks with copings of larger irregular blocks. Wall is some 1.7m high and approximately 30m long.
Included as rare example of a slag wall, an historically important relic of the Ystafera Ironworks.
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