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Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard is a post-medieval and modern industrial site located in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, reflecting the area's significant contribution to British industrial production during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The brick yard represents the extractive and manufacturing industries that characterised the Blaenavon ironworks landscape, where local clay deposits were exploited to produce bricks for construction purposes. The site's physical remains evidence the industrial processes integral to the broader Blaenavon industrial complex, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of its exceptional testimony to the development of iron and coal industries in South Wales. The Upper Brick Yard survives as an archaeological monument of the period when Blaenavon was a centre of intensive heavy industrial activity.
Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM296. View the official record →
Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard is a post-medieval and modern industrial site located in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, reflecting the area's significant contribution to British industrial production during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM296.
Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a quarry. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard 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 MM296.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge (0.9 km), Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline (2.3 km), Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of) (2.8 km).
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