Entrance to park on former industrial site, Pen-y-Darren
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Entrance to park on former industrial site, Pen-y-Darren
Image: © CHARLES GORDON CLARK Taken: 5 Aug 2010
In the early 1990s the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council commissioned three sets of dry stone walls to define entrances to the new parkland created on the site of the former Pen-y-Darren ironworks. They provided a link between the pre-industrial rural cultural landscape and the post-industrial semi-urban cultural landscape. The walls have subsequently had their coping stones mortared, which is sensible in the locations they are in.
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