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Cyfarthfa Canal Level is a post-medieval and modern canal feature located in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference GM467. The canal level represents industrial-era infrastructure developed to facilitate the extraction and transport of coal and other mineral resources from the South Wales coalfield. The underlying geology comprises the Pennine and South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation, a complex sequence of mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal seams, ironstone and ferricrete deposits laid down during the Moscovian period of the Carboniferous. These mineral-rich strata made the region economically significant during the industrial expansion of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when canal engineering became essential to moving bulk materials efficiently across difficult terrain. The Cyfarthfa Canal Level survives as a record of the technological and commercial enterprise that drove Wales's industrial development during this formative period of modern Britain.
Cyfarthfa Canal Level is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM467. View the official record →
Cyfarthfa Canal Level is a post-medieval and modern canal feature located in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference GM467.
Cyfarthfa Canal Level dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a canal level. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cyfarthfa Canal Level 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 GM467.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cefn Merthyr Round Cairns (6.6 km), Brynbychan Round Cairn (6.8 km), Remains of Iron Furnace at Cwmaman (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cyfarthfa Canal Level'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.
Cyfarthfa Canal Level stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.