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Locomotive Type Steam Boiler, Blaen Rhondda is a surviving industrial artefact from the coal mining operations of the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. The boiler dates to the post-medieval industrial period and represents the mechanical infrastructure that powered colliery workings during the height of Welsh coal extraction. As a locomotive-type steam boiler, it exemplifies the technological systems employed to drive winding gear and other essential pit machinery that characterised late nineteenth and early twentieth-century mining installations. The structure is designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw record reference GM509, reflecting its significance to the material heritage of Welsh industrial development.
Locomotive Type Steam Boiler, Blaen Rhondda is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM509. View the official record →
Locomotive Type Steam Boiler, Blaen Rhondda is a surviving industrial artefact from the coal mining operations of the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM509.
Locomotive Type Steam Boiler, Blaen Rhondda dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a colliery. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Locomotive Type Steam Boiler, Blaen Rhondda 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 GM509.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork 360m NNE of Crug yr Avan (5.7 km), Crug yr Afan Round Cairn (6.1 km), Bwlch yr Avan Dyke (6.4 km).
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