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Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and Dam is a post-medieval and modern industrial tinplate works located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The site represents the significant tinplate manufacturing industry that developed in South Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the region became a major centre of tin-plating production. The works incorporates a dam structure, which would have provided the water power necessary to drive the industrial machinery essential to the tinplate manufacturing process. The site is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the care of Cadw, reflecting its importance to the industrial heritage of Wales and the broader history of British metalworking industries.
Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and Dam is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM291. View the official record →
Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and Dam is a post-medieval and modern industrial tinplate works located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM291.
Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and Dam dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a tinplate works. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and Dam 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 CM291.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Spudder's Bridge (2.3 km), Glanstony Aqueduct, Trimsaran (2.6 km), Dome Gunnery Trainer, Pembrey Airfield (4.3 km).
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