IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Scwrfa Road, TREDEGAR, NP22 4AZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Scwrfa Road, NP22 4AZ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (82 Images Found)
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This inverted and moved OS cut mark can be found on the school wall SW side of Vicarage Road. It marked a point 313.536m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 5 Dec 2020
0.04 miles
2
Footbridge across the River Sirhowy, Dukestown, Tredegar
Leading to the Belle Vue Inn http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3196336 .
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 13 Sep 2012
0.04 miles
3
The River Sirhowy, Dukestown, Tredegar
Looking down river to a footbridge.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 13 Sep 2012
0.05 miles
4
Belle Vue Inn, Dukestown, Tredegar
Situated on Scwfra Road.
Scwfra is a nearby area and the name means scouring, referring to an early method of getting at mineral deposits by releasing a flood of water to wash away the soil.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 13 Sep 2012
0.05 miles
5
Footbridge and plaque, Dukestown, Tredegar
This footbridge replaced an earlier bridge in 1989.
The plaque states that it was the first of its type in the United Kingdom. I have been unable to find out to what this is referring.
The bridge is a closed spandrel type with what appears to be a metal arch.
For another view of the bridge see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3235340 .
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 13 Sep 2012
0.05 miles
6
Scwfra, Dukestown, Tredegar
This view is looking towards the west. The chapels are Carmel Welsh Baptist on the right and Ebenezer Independent to the left.
Scwfra means scouring, referring to an early method of getting at mineral deposits by releasing a flood of water to wash away the soil. Here, the mineral deposits were iron ore.
The following is an extract from A History of Monmouthshire, Vol 5, by Sir J A Bradney, published by the South Wales Record Society. The full document can be accessed via http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/ .
The oldest process was to scratch on the surface for the mineral but as the mineral got deeper in the earth it was necessary to drive several holes with a bar till a large piece of stratum would fall. A pond would be constructed so that the dam could be cut through and the water allowed to rush over the material separating the mine from the rubbish. This was called scouring, in Welsh ysgwrio, which word survives in the place name Scwrfa.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 13 Sep 2012
0.09 miles
7
Side road from Charles Street to Arnold Place, Tredegar
Patched road surface in August 2019.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 7 Aug 2019
0.12 miles
8
A4048 along the route of a former railway, Tredegar
Viewed from Ashvale Roundabout. The A4048 here follows the route of a dismantled railway line.
Nearly a kilometre ahead is the site formerly occupied by Sirhowy railway station, where passenger services ceased in 1960.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 22 Aug 2013
0.13 miles
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the east angle of the RC Church. It marks a point 319.504m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 5 Dec 2020
0.13 miles
10
Distinctively-shaped building in Tredegar
Set back 25 metres from Charles Street.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 7 Aug 2019
0.14 miles