Lower Boat Pond, Beaufort
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Lower Boat Pond, Beaufort
Image: © Colin Cheesman Taken: 20 Jan 2019
This is the larger of the two Boat Ponds that form part of what is now Beaufort Hill Ponds and Woodlands, run by a volunteer group on land owned by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. The ponds were originally created in 1780 to supply the Nantyglo Iron Works and later the Ebbw Vale Steelworks till that closed in 2002. They are now a haven for wildlife, popular with locals for walking and dog walking and are fished.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.79956
Longitude
-3.196486