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Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery is a post-medieval burial ground located in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, established to serve the rapidly expanding industrial community of the ironworks. The cemetery dates from the nineteenth century and reflects the public health crises that accompanied industrialisation, particularly the cholera epidemics that claimed many lives among the workforce and their families. It represents a significant archaeological record of mortality patterns and burial practices during a period of intense social and economic change in South Wales. The site remains an important testament to the human cost of industrial expansion and the community responses to epidemic disease in the Victorian era.
Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM287. View the official record →
Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery is a post-medieval burial ground located in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, established to serve the rapidly expanding industrial community of the ironworks. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM287.
Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a cemetery. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery 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 MM287.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gelligaer Common Round Cairns (6.1 km), Dyke 315m E of Tyla-Glas (6.9 km), Platform Houses on Coly Uchaf (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery'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.
Tredegar Ironworks Cholera Cemetery stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.