Unfortunately the tramroad wagon and track is just a tourist tableau, wrong track, wrong wagon and there never was a tramroad here. The large drawholes are preserved and one of the three pots. Goytre Wharf is now a marina but was originally a set of limekilns below the canal level fed from a small dock. The trackbed through the tunnel and over the viaduct is now a footpath. The line closed to passengers in 1955 and goods traffic ceased soon after. The Railway through Usk was opened in 1856 by the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway, soon becoming part of the GWR. Sometimes thought to be iron mines due to a high iron content apparently. The Cilwrgi limekiln is a little further West.Īncient underground limestone quarries rumoured to date back to the 1600s and first dug by local monks. Just over the fence from Cefn Ila lies this WW2 pillbox, unfortunately on the heavily protected property of what used to be Glascoed Royal Ordnence Factory. I wonder if they can ever get the hydraulic ram working again? In 2016 the pumphouse was lost in the jungle and very tumble-down but just two years later it was restored. The hudraulic ram pump probably ran a fountain and appears to be a "No 4 Easton & Amos (London & Erith) 3 inch new no. Since then it has been purchased by 'The Woodland Trust' who are restoring and enhancing the grounds. In 1925 the estate passed to Pontypool Hospital who used it a a convalescent, casualty and maternity unit until 1973 when it was burnt down. Pant Gwyn limekilns, Llanhennock - ST 3678 9260ĭating from the mid-Victorian period, Cefn Ila was a large Victorian house with extensive grounds including a pond. The Brynoer Tramroad The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway Glangrwyney Valley Crickhowell to Talybont Sudbrook and the Severn Estuary The Wye Valley Caerleon and Usk to Abergavenny Craig-yr-hafod Tramroad Abergavenny to Gilwern
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