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Whitebrook Wireworks Leat is a post-medieval industrial water channel located in Wales that supplied water to the wireworks operation at Whitebrook. The leat represents the infrastructure essential to eighteenth and nineteenth-century metalworking industries, which required reliable water sources for power and processing. Its construction and maintenance reflect the broader development of industrial enterprises in Wales during the period of expanding metal manufacture. The surviving earthwork and physical remains of the leat demonstrate the engineering solutions employed to channel water across the landscape to serve the wireworks facility.
Whitebrook Wireworks Leat is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM292. View the official record →
Whitebrook Wireworks Leat is a post-medieval industrial water channel located in Wales that supplied water to the wireworks operation at Whitebrook. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM292.
Whitebrook Wireworks Leat dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a leat. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Whitebrook Wireworks Leat 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 MM292.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St. Mary's Churchyard Cross, Penterry (8 km), Offa's Dyke: section in Worgan's Wood, 800m west of Chase Farm (8.1 km), Offa's Dyke: section in Boatwood Plantation, 320m south west of Chase Farm (8.5 km).
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