History
Blaenafon Ironworks
Blaenavon, Wales
Well-kept 18th-century blast furnaces, plus workers' cottages and a recreated truck shop.
- Price
- Adult about £8.00 (Cadw rates from Sept 2026)
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 75 min
Part of the Blaenavon World Heritage landscape, the site has ruined furnaces, a cast house and a working water balance tower. Restored cottages show how ironworkers lived. Pair it with Big Pit down the road for a full industrial-heritage day.
Good to know
- Closed Mon-Thu in winter
- Car park is across a busy road
- Dogs on leads, not in the cottages
- Best time
- Any weather, mostly outdoors
- Open
- 30 Mar-1 Nov daily; winter Fri-Sun
- Getting there
- Car park about 200m away, footpath across the road
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Toilets
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