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Castle Meadows Park, Merthyr Road, ABERGAVENNY, NP7 7RZ

The footbridge crosses above the A4143, giving pedestrian access to Hatherleigh Place and Union Road West.

An apparently long-abandoned place of worship is located at the western end of a street named Cae Pen y Dre. There was no evidence remaining to indicate the name of the former church or chapel.

Cul-de-sac at the western end of Cae Pen y Dre, accessed by road from Union Road East.

Connecting with Union Road East behind the camera, Cae Pen y Dre ends at the edge of Cae Pen y Dre Close retirement housing in the background on the left.

The bridge leads from Union Road East to Hatherleigh Place and Union Road West. At one time there was a road bridge here across what was a railway line and Union Road would have been one thoroughfare.

The A4143 uses the trackbed of a former railway; the bridge links two parts of a street severed and diverted when the road was constructed

On the approach to the footbridge https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2156937 at the northwest end of the road.

On the approach to the footbridge https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2156937 at the northwest end of the road.

Grade II listed building located on Hatherleigh Place. It was built during 1837-1838 as the Abergavenny Union Workhouse, under the terms of the 1834 Poor Law Reform Act. It remained in use as the workhouse until about 1945. Since then it has been much altered, as it was put to various business uses. The remaining part, seen here, has been repaired and restored since 2000. It is the entrance block which once contained the admissions, administrative and warden's offices, and the boardroom for the Board of Guardians.

Affixed to a wall alongside the A4143 is a plaque with a representation of an LMS 0-6-2T (tank) locomotive. The surrounding text is This Plaque is to commemorate the railway people of Abergavenny Abergavenny 1860 (representation of locomotive) Merthyr 1960. Near this spot stood the local engine sheds which once housed nearly one hundred steam engines. [end of text]. The locomotive depicted is a Webb Coal Tank, which would have been a common sight in this area in the first half of the 20th century. They were introduced by the LNWR (London and North Western Railway) in 1881. They were designed by F.W. Webb with distinctive cheaply-produced cast iron wheels and H-section spokes. 300 were built between 1881 and 1899. At the 1923 grouping, the locomotives became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). Only one Webb Coal Tank has been preserved. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4738685 About 400 metres to the NE is the site of the former Brecon Road railway station, opened in 1862, closed in 1958.