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South of the station were the goods yard and sidings which served the various industries in the area, including hirwaun ironworks, tower colliery, two brickworks, and penderyn quarry tramway. With the beeching axe in 1963, the lines south to neath and north to merthyr and the former aberdare railway were all closed.
The name tower comes from a folly constructed by the crawshay family on hirwaun common in 1848.
Tower colliery was the last operational deep coal mine in the south wales valleys, located near the town of hirwaun. It was on the northern edge of the south wales coalfield the coal was close to the surface and drift mining was practised between 1805 and 1941 when a 160 metre deep shaft was sunk.
Among the larger collieries that worked the seams of hirwaun common were the aberdare-merthyr steam coal colliery that operated from before 1860 to 1917 and the bute colliery. The bute colliery operated from before 1850, when it was owned by the hirwaun iron company, until 1906.
Tower colliery, treherbert road, hirwaun, aberdare, mid glam, wales, cf44 9uf role active secretary appointed on 24 january 2008.
Tower colliery, hirwaun, rhondda cynon taf, wales, uk tower colliery is located near the village of hirwaun. Established in 1864, up to 14 seams were worked at tower colliery and the neighbouring mines within the lease area of tower.
Tower colliery (welsh: glofa'r tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the united kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure in 2008. It was the last mine of its kind to remain in the south wales valleys. It was located near the villages of hirwaun and rhigos, north of the town of aberdare in the cynon valley south.
Tower colliery (welsh: glofa'r tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep- coal mine in the united kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure in 2008.
2008 blue plaque awarded to ty mawr mansion to acknowledge the importance of the local iron works.
Finding out which colliery your ancestor worked in can be difficult as there were hundreds of mines across south wales.
Tower colliery was located on the northern edge of the coalfield near the villages of hirwaun and rhigos, north of the town of aberdare in the cynon valley south wales. The name rhigos is an adaptation of the welsh y rugos meaning the heath.
The proposed location we have selected for this project is the site of the former tower colliery, which runs alongside the a465 heads of the valleys near hirwaun. The site, which has been selected in partnership with the tower regeneration scheme, has considerable potential for environmental improvement and commercial development, along with.
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