Forge Side
Forge Side was the site of an ironworks started in 1836.
Forge Side was the site of an ironworks started in 1836. The development was soon abandoned, but resumed in 1859. A settlement of houses was built for the workers.
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Worth seeing in and around Forge Side
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, in and around Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, was inscribed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone.
200 m · World Heritage Site in Blaenavon, south-east Wales · Wikipedia - 02Ogof Draenen
Ogof Draenen entrance is located at Pwll Du, north of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire. At 66 kilometres it is the longest cave system in Wales and the second longest in Great Britain behind the Three Counties System on the Cumbria/Lancashire/Yorkshire border.
3.4 km · cave in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Dog Stone
The Dog Stone, on Mynydd Farteg, a subsidiary top of Coity Mountain, near the village of Abersychan, Torfaen, Wales, is a memorial, dating from 1864, to "Carlo", a Red setter. It is a Grade II listed structure.
1.9 km · memorial in Abersychan, Torfaen · Wikipedia
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Getting to Forge Side
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 45 km · Bristol (BRS), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 119 km
- Stations
- Whistle Inn Halt railway station, 2.2 km · Big Pit Halt railway station, 800 m · Blaenavon Low Level railway station, 800 m · Blaenavon High Level railway station, 700 m · Varteg railway station, 3.2 km
- Cardiff → Forge Side33 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £4–5
- Bristol → Forge Side49 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Forge Side114 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–18
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Forge Side. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Abergavenny they continue to Hereford then either to Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin) or to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
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Next door to Forge Side
Forge Side is 33 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Blaenavontown in Torfaen, Wales, UK1 km
- Vartegvillage in Torfaen, Wales, UK3.2 km
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- Cwmavonhamlet in Torfaen in south east Wales3.4 km