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Site Information
- UNESCO ID
- 984
- Category
- Cultural
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Inscribed
- 2000
- Coordinates
- 51.7703, -3.0922
- Wikidata
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Selection Criteria
(iii)
(iv)
Criteria: (iii), (iv)
Description
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. Raw materials and products were transported via horse-drawn tramroads, canals and steam railways. The Landscape includes protected or listed monuments of the industrial processes, transport infrastructure, workers' housing and other aspects of early industrialisation in South Wales.