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Blaenafon Ironworks is a Post Medieval ironworks situated in Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Wales, established in 1789 by Thomas Hopkins and his partners. The site represents a significant example of late eighteenth-century iron production technology and was instrumental in the industrial development of South Wales during the period of intensive ironmaking expansion. The works comprised blast furnaces, forges, casting houses, and associated workers' housing, demonstrating the integrated nature of iron production settlements of this era. Blaenafon Ironworks remained operational for much of the nineteenth century and is now a substantial archaeological and industrial monument, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the care of Cadw, reflecting its importance to the heritage and economic history of Wales.
Blaenafon Ironworks is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM200. View the official record →
Blaenafon Ironworks is a Post Medieval ironworks situated in Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Wales, established in 1789 by Thomas Hopkins and his partners. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM200.
Blaenafon Ironworks dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a ironworks. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Blaenafon Ironworks is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MM200.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge (0.5 km), Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline (1.9 km), Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of) (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Blaenafon Ironworks's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Blaenafon Ironworks stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.