Historic Sites Attractions In Crynant

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

Crynant Shooting Ground

Oakwood Theme Park

Rhossili Bay

The Milky Way Adventure Park

Folly Farm

The National Showcaves Centre for Wales

Big Pit: National Coal Museum

Crynant is a village and community in the Dulais Valley in Wales. It lies 7¾ miles north-east from the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot, lying between the mountains of Mynydd Marchywel to the west, Hirfynydd to the east and Mynydd y Drum to the north. Crynant is a long village, lying on the narrow valley floor and lower slopes of Hirfynydd. Originally there were separate villages , such as the region of Treforgan, but all have now merged into a single village. The River Dulais flows through the village. Creunant is also the name of an electoral ward and a community, coterminous with the village, in Neath Port Talbot County Borough.
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Historic Sites Attractions In Crynant

1. The National Showcaves Centre for Wales Pen Y Cae
2. Big Pit: National Coal Museum Blaenavon
Big Pit National Coal Museum is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales. The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial revolution. Located adjacent to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Big Pit is part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site, and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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Crynant Videos

Photographs of the Winter of 1963 - Britain's Big Freeze.

Photographs of the Winter of 1963 - Britain's Big Freeze.

The winter of 1962–1963 (also known as the Big Freeze of 1963) was one of the coldest winters on record in the United Kingdom. Temperatures plummeted and lakes and rivers began to freeze over.
I have a vivid memory of this climatic event. Our family had been to a pantomime on the 26th December 1962 and we came out after the show, to a heavy snowstorm. This storm lasted fully two days and was followed by a great blizzard resulting in great snow drifts and blocking several roads and railway lines.
In January 1963, the sea froze for one mile out from the shore in northern Kent and parts of the northern reaches of the River Thames froze over. Temperatures plummeted with more snow coming in February together with gale force winds.....

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The BIG PIT

The oldest working Colliery in Wales. We couldn't take cameras down into the actual mine but there's plenty more to the BIG PIT!!

Historic Sites Attractions In Crynant

Historic Sites Attractions In Crynant

Crynant Videos

Photographs of the Winter of 1963 - Britain's Big Freeze.

To Scourie 1

The BIG PIT

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