IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Shop Road, PONTYPOOL, NP4 7RU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Shop Road, NP4 7RU 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 (51 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Site of missing bridge over former railway near Varteg
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 15 Oct 2011
0.06 miles
2
Entrance to Forge House, Cwmavon
Viewed from Cwmavon Road (A4043). Forge House, on the right, was built in the third quarter of the 19th century, probably at the same time that a file factory was established on the site, formerly the location of Varteg Forge.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.08 miles
3
The view ENE from Varteg Incline
Spectacular scenery seen from the Varteg Incline viewing area. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1855738
The row of white houses is Forge Row, forge workers' cottages in Cwmavon built c1804. A larger house to the left of the row, between trees, is Cwmavon House, where the forge manager lived.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 May 2010
0.08 miles
4
Junction of Shop Road and Cwmavon Road, Cwmavon
Shop Road on the right ascends towards Varteg.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.10 miles
6
Northern boundary of Cwmavon
The A4043 from Blaenavon reaches the northern edge of Cwmavon, a small village in the Afon Lwyd valley, north of Abersychan.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.11 miles
7
Cwmavon Works
Viewed from the edge of Cwmavon Road (A4043). A sign at the entrance shows that the works are (April 2011) the factory and head office of two firms: EMC (Extrusion & Moulding Compounds Ltd) and Capital Valley Plastics. The reception building is on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.12 miles
8
Stiles between cycle route and Shop Road
The bilingual sign give distances to Blaenavon and to Pontypool via NCR 492 on the former railway line. In the distance an abutment of the demolished bridge of the Varteg Incline tramway is just visible.
Image: © M J Roscoe
Taken: 25 Feb 2022
0.13 miles
9
A view NE along the A4043, Cwmavon
Cwmavon Road (A4043) passes the entrance on the right to Cwmavon Works. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3022475
The row of white houses is Grade II* listed Forge Row Cottages. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3022438
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.13 miles
10
Side view of Grade II* listed Forge Row Cottages, Cwmavon
Set back from and above the main road (A4043) through Cwmavon.
Forge Row was built c 1804-1806 for workmen at the nearby Varteg Forge.
The original 12 houses were later converted to 6 houses.
Each house is individually Grade II* listed.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Apr 2011
0.13 miles