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Extract from the Blaenafon Travel Guides:
Fourteen miles north of Newport, the valley of the Llwyd opens out at the airy iron and coal town of
BLAENAFON
(sometimes Blaenavon), whose population has shrunk to five thousand, a quarter of its nineteenth-century size. It's a fascinating and evocative place, a fact recognized by UNESCO, who granted it World Heritage Site status in 2000. The town's boom kicked off at the Blaenafon
ironworks
, just off the Brynmawr road (April-Oct daily 9.30am-4.30pm; call 01633/648081 for winter hours; 2; CADW), founded in 1788. Limestone, coal and iron ore - ingredients for successful iron-smelting - were abundant locally, and the...
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