IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Victoria Road, HENGOED, CF82 7RF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Victoria Road, CF82 7RF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (92 Images Found)
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Maesycwmmer - Hengoed Viaduct
The viaduct was built in the 1850s to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway over the Rhymney valley. It closed to railway traffic in 1964.
It has 16 arches, is 284 yards long and 120 feet high.
In 2000 it was opened for public access and is now part of National Cycle Route 47, the Celtic Way Cycle Route and the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk.
For a view from the other side see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1679645 .
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 8 Nov 2012
0.10 miles
4
Signposts on eastern approach to Hengoed Viaduct
On the left is one of a thousand millennium mileposts to mark the creation of the national cycle network; the left arm gives the mileage to the Taff Trail and Pontypridd, the right to Newport and Crosskeys. The green and white post Image is a Loops & Links post; the nearer arm should be pointing to the left.
Image: © M J Roscoe
Taken: 24 Mar 2018
0.13 miles
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Signposts, National Cycle Route 47
On the left is a Mills style millennium milepost.
To the left, Taff Trail 4¾m, Pontypridd 10m.
To the right, Newport 15m, Crosskeys, 7m.
On the right is a more recent Loops and Links sign post.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 23 Jan 2010
0.13 miles
7
Ocean Coal Memorial
Evans & Bevan, former Welsh Anthracite (coal) mine owners, major employers in the South Wales valleys. Immortalised in this sculpture on the old rail bed at Maesycwmmer. Ocean Coal and Empire Coal, were also large mining companies owning many of the other pits.
Image: © Alan Hughes
Taken: 12 Jun 2022
0.13 miles
10
Hengoed
Hengoed, former high level, now a cycle track walkway, with railway trucks formed into a circle
Image: © Colin Prosser
Taken: 7 May 2015
0.13 miles