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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Blaenavon
		To the north at Blaenavon the Big Pit preserves a former coal mine as a museum.
		capital, the former ironmaking town of Blaenavon is hoping for a renaissance as the...
		capital, the former ironmaking town of Blaenavon is hoping for a renaissance as the literary...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Blaenavon (811 words)

	Blaenavon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaenavon (Welsh: Blaenafon) is a town and World Heritage Site in southern Wales, lying at the source of the Llwyd River.
		Blaenavon grew around an ironworks opened in 1788, part of which is now a museum.
		The steel-making and coal mining industries followed, boosting the town's population to over 20,000 at one time, but since the ironworks closed in 1900 and the coal mine in 1980, the population has declined, and now consists mostly of older citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaenavon (255 words)

	Data Wales : a note on Blaenavon ...
		The town of Blaenavon in south Wales is known to history because of the important part it played in Britain's industrial revolution.
		Large scale production ceased around 1900 and the present population of Blaenavon is reckoned to be just a quarter of the size it achieved when the furnaces roared day and night to stiffen the sinews of an industrial giant.
		These days Blaenavon is a place of pilgrimage for those interested in our industrial heritage but the town is also home to a range of modern industries, both large and small.
	www.data-wales.co.uk /blaenafon.htm (159 words)

	Blaenavon - Heritage Lottery Fund
		As a result, Blaenavon is now universally acknowledged as one of the best places in the world to gain an understanding of the people and processes that led to the Industrial Revolution.
		Blaenavon’s pioneering ironworks and the associated coal and iron mines represented state-of-the-art technology in the 19th century, but the Blaenavon community experienced severe economic and social decline following the closure of the iron works and mines a century later.
		The increase in visitor numbers to the National Mining Museum of Wales has been reflected in the social and economic development of Blaenavon, and it is recognised by the Blaenavon Partnership that HLF funding was crucial in levering additional funding for the area and regenerating the town.
	www.hlf.org.uk /English/InYourArea/Wales/CaseStudies/Blaenavon.htm (709 words)

	Blaenavon Big Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Blaenavon is located at the head of the Afon Llwyd valley in one of the more exposed areas of the Gwent uplands.
		The succeeding industrial development of Blaenavon can be traced through the changes that have occurred to the surrounding landscape, which dramatically still bear witness to the activities of the coal, iron and steel industries, with the remains of quarry workings, mine shafts, open casting patches, extensive spoil heaps, tramroads and railways still apparent.
		The later development of Blaenavon during the period 1820 to 1870 is reflected in the area bounded by King Street in the north and Hill Street to the east.
	www.page-net.com /swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/mining15.htm (1387 words)

	South Wales Mining Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Blaenavon Ironworks was founded by three businessmen from the Midlands, Thomas Hill, Benjamin Pratt and Thomas Hopkins.
		This was fine for places like Blaenavon where there was plenty of phosphorous-free iron, but it meant the converter was of limited use in most parts of Europe and America where the iron deposits contained phosphorous.
		Train and Bus: Blaenavon is served by buses from Abergavenny, Pontypool, Cwmbran and Newport, all of which have BR stations (0345 484950).
	page-net.com /swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/miningtrail.html (3520 words)

	Blaenavon Industrial Landscape - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Blaenavon town owes its existence to the early production of iron and coal in its mines and ironworks.
		Blaenavon is a small town in the green hills of Wales.
		It is easy to drive to Blaenavon as it is easily marked from the M4 which runs from London, if you do not have a car apparently the No 30 & 23 buses run every 30 minutes from Newport (easy to get to from Cardiff).
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/blaenavon.html (596 words)

	Postcard from Blaenavon
		The area around Blaenavon, which lies on the border of the Brecon Beacons National Park, provides the visitor with outstanding scenery.
		Blaenavon owes it's heritage to coal and iron and later to steel.
		Blaenavon has had a chequered history and with the loss of heavy industry the town, like so many in the South Wales Valleys, fell into decline.
	www.btinternet.com /~j.a.lewis/page2.html (342 words)

	Interview with James Hanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Blaenavon has a huge population within a 30 minute drive, Hay doesn’t.
		Blaenavon gets the book buyers out and about, we then find it easy to suggest they carry on their day by a visit to Hay, “it’s only about 25 miles away”.
		Blaenavon is and will always be a work in progress but it is a major success story and I am proud to have played a part in the revitalisation of this very special town.
	www.atherstone-online.co.uk /interview_jameshanna.htm (2173 words)

	Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially, only ores low in phosphorus and sulfur could be used for quality steelmaking; ores rich in those elements yielded brittle metals little better than cast iron.
		This problem was solved in 1878 by Percy Carlyle Gilchrist and his cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas at the ironworks at Blaenavon in Wales.
		Their modified Bessemer process used a converter lined with limestone or dolomite, and additional lime was added to the molten metal as a Flux.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steel (4960 words)

	Blaenavon Ironworks
		The main focus of the area is Blaenavon Ironworks, a site in state care, where there are remains of a works with six blast furnaces in which, from 1789 until 1902, ore was smelted to produce pig iron.
		With its exceptional range of surviving structures, Blaenavon Ironworks is the best preserved blast furnace complex of its period and type in the world.
		The most impressive monument to Ashwell's work at Blaenavon Ironworks is the water balance tower at its northern end, which was built in 1839.
	www.world-heritage-blaenavon.org.uk /whs-info/nomination/iron/ironworks.htm (765 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Bookish Blaenavon opens new chapter
		Blaenavon is trying to reverse its declining fortunes by becoming an unlikely Mecca for book-lovers, and this Saturday will declare itself "Booktown".
		Moulded by coal and steel, Blaenavon was once home to 25,000 people, but now numbers just 6,000.
		But, working with Torfaen council, he was given favourable rent options on those properties and has helped 10 new booksellers - half of them local - set up behind their now-revamped facades.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/3023862.stm (452 words)

	Blaenavon travel guide - Wikitravel
		Blaenavon is a town in Gwent, South Wales.
		The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape has been named a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
		The National Museum of Wales has turned this former coal mine into a look back at what mining life was like in days gone by.
	wikitravel.org /en/Blaenavon (133 words)

	Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000), Blaenavon, 40 km NE of Cardiff, Wales, UK World Heritage sites, World Heritage, ...
		The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape is a "cultural landscape" and one of the best examples in the World of a landscape created by coal mining and iron making in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
		In the landscape waymarked footpaths follow early tramways and give excellent views of early mineral workings: The town of Blaenavon is the best preserved iron town in Wales and features many interesting social, educational and religious buildings as well as the stone and brick terraces of the ironworkers and colliers.
		Criterion C (iii): The Blaenavon landscape constitutes an exceptional illustration in material form of the social and economic structure of 19th century industry.
	icomos-uk.org /whs/blaenavon_industrial_landscape (373 words)

	GENUKI: Llanofer / Llanover, Monmouthshire
		It is situated on the river Usk, near the Brecon canal.
		There is also the district church of Blaenavon, the living of which is a perpetual curacy,* value £114.
		Blaenavon in old picture postcards : a selection of photographs from a collection compiled by Alan Parry and Francis Keen.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/wal/MON/Llanover (443 words)

	Blaenavon Industrial Landscape - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century.
		Criterion iii The Blaenavon landscape constitutes an exceptional illustration in material form of the social and economic structure of 19th century industry.
		Criterion iv The components of the Blaenavon industrial landscape together make up an outstanding and remarkably complete example of a 19th century industrial landscape.
	whc.unesco.org /pg_friendly_print.cfm?cid=31&id_site=984& (126 words)

	Whitten Connections
		was born on 29 Jun 1850 in Blaenavon, Wales.
		He was baptized on 25 Jul 1850 in Chapel Blaenavon, Blaenavon, Wales.
		She was baptized on 25 Jul 1850 in Chapel Blaenavon, Blaenavon, Wales.
	home.att.net /~whittenp/d5.htm (2744 words)

	Blaenavon: A World beater in integrated regeneration!
		It is a format that is greatly appreciated by delegates to the events, drawn from a wide range of professional and practitioner backgrounds.
		The Blaenavon visit commenced with an optional visit to Big Pit Mining Museum, and two thirds of the delegates enjoyed the underground guided tour of the former colliery and a short presentation by the Manager of Big Pit, Peter Walker.
		The seminar presentations in the restored Blaenavon Workmen’s Hall commenced with a detailed description of events leading to the designation of the unique industrial landscape of the Blaenavon area to World Heritage Site status, by John Rodger MBE, Director of the Blaenavon World Heritage Site Project.
	www.rics.org /RICSWEB/Templates/ContentPageTemplates/GeneralContent.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=/Property/Propertymanagement/Regeneration/wales_blaenavon_report_july06.htm?textonly=true&NRNODEGUID={3C9EA178-978D-4A53-A5D9-CF68B3F4D7E4}&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&textonly=false (564 words)

	Torfaen Community Media Enterprise Group - Torfaen
		Blaenavon Broadcasting Group, co-publishers of this community newspaper, chose the AM band because of the mountainous geography of the area.
		In an effort to get Blaenavon motivated, Officers from the Economic Development Department of the Borough Council, together with staff from the Torfaen IT centre, will be visiting the Town to spread the word on Friday, February 13th.
		Blaenavon Broadcasting Group is a founding partner in Torfaen Community Media Enterprise Company (Tormedia) Ltd by Guarantee (in foundation).
	www.tormedia.info /blaenfirstjan04.htm (2693 words)

	BBC - South East Wales Webguide - Blaenavon Web Guide
		This former industrial town - home of the Big Pit mining museum - is turning to literature as a path to prosperity.
		Blaenavon was made famous by the best-selling novel Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell.
		Serving Blaenavon, Cwmbran, and Pontypool, this group welcomes volunteers who want to be trained and get involved in a range of community media projects, including their website.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/webguide/pages/towns_blaenavon.shtml (419 words)

	Blaenavon cinemas listings - cinemas schedules and movie reviews
		If you can't find the film you want at a cinema in Blaenavon, or would like to go to a cinema outside Blaenavon you can use the Cinemas by City option to find films showing at cinemas in cities, towns or villages near Blaenavon.
		Blaenavon cinemas may not be displayed properly because your browser does not support JavaScript.
		UK cinemas does not endorse any particular cinemas in Blaenavon and is not responsible for the listings and times of films in the cinemas listed.
	www.britinfo.net /cinema/cinemaDXJ.htm (284 words)

	Blaenavon Office - Davis & Sons
		Nestled in an attractive Welsh valley, the Blaenavon office of Davis and Sons provides assistance for buyers and vendors from all around the area.
		The management of the Blaenavon office is currently handled by the Davis & Sons office in Pontypool.
		Should you have any queries about buying or selling a property in or around Blaenavon, or would like further information about any of the properties featured on this section of the site, please feel free to contact the Blaenavon office.
	www.davisandsons.net /blaenavon (228 words)

	Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On November 30 2000, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage site thanks to its history which placed the town at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
		Also at Blaenavon is rolling stock stored for other preserved railway societies, not fortunate enough to have the necessary space to accommodate their acquisitions.
		Blaenavon is served by buses from Abergavenny, Pontypool, Cwmbran and Newport, all of which are on the national railway network.
	users.aol.com /WalesRails/pbr.htm (944 words)

	Blaenavon Blues AFC -- The Blues
		This is the first time the club has produced a web site and hope you find it interesting and informative.
		The club is currently running two senior sides, the 1st team are competing in the Gwent County League Division 1, and the reserve team are competing in the Gwent Central League Division 1.
		We have after match refreshments at Forgeside Rugby Club situated in Broad Street, Blaenavon.
	www.freewebs.com /blaenavonbluesafc (351 words)

	Blaenafon.info - Information and Pictures of Blaenavon, South Wales
		What actually makes Blaenafon so different from other sites is that the iron industry, so important to Blaenavon's rise to fame and fortune, deserted the town so quickly and completely when things started to go wrong.
		If it had been a slow decline as it was elsewhere, buildings would have been converted to other use, the Blaenafon workforce would have learnt new skills and the community would have changed.
		So Blaenavon, once the superlative mining town of Britain, if not Europe - possibly the closest comparison to the 'boom and bust' frontier mining towns of the New World - rises again as a tourist attraction to rival Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall, to say nothing of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.
	www.norbiton.com /blaenavon (293 words)

	Blaenavon Town Council
		We hope that you will enjoy reading about our town and that in doing so you may be prompted to visit us.
		Having played an important part in the Industrial Revolution, Blaenavon is now building a new industry - tourism.
		The town has now been recognised as a site of World Heritage Status and this together with the National Mining Museum of Wales, superb scenery and an abundance of things to do makes Blaenavon a must for the tourist.
	www.blaenavon.gov.uk /welcome.htm (79 words)

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