Ystalyfera
Ystalyfera is a Village in the county of Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot).
Ystalyfera postcode: SA9 2AD
There are great places to visit near Ystalyfera.
Ystalyfera History
There are some historic monuments around Ystalyfera:
- Cribarth Limestone Quarries and Tramroads
- Carn Pen-Rhiw-Ddu
- Remains of Lock and Dry Dock at Pantyffynnon
- Cefn Morfydd Dyke & Earthwork
- Aberdulais Aqueduct
- Canal Boat at Aberdulais Basin
- Carn Pen-y-Clogau
- Coed Ddu house platforms and enclosure
- Bryn Llechwen ring cairn
- Canal Aqueduct over the River Twrch, Ystalyfera
- Hut Circle West of Saith Maen
- Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad Incline
- Pont Clydach settlement
- Cilybebyll Auxiliary Unit Operational Base
- Moel Gornach settlement
- Standing Stones 300m W of Cefncelfi
- Carreg Bica Standing Stone
- Coed Ddu ring cairn
- Tramroad at Ystradgynlais
- Llwyncwmstabl round cairn
- House Platforms West of Dyffryn Wood
- Carn Fadog round cairn
- Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd Drumau
- Lefel Fawr Coal Adit
- Crimea Colliery & Canal Quay
- Three Round Cairns on Carn Caca
- Cwm Twrch settlement and limekiln
- Remains of Blast Furnace at Melin Court
- Blaen y Cylchau Deserted Rural Settlement
- Hirfynydd Roman Earthwork
- Nant Tawe Fechan Burnt Mound
- Blaen-Cwmbach Camp
- Cairn on Mynydd-March-Hywel
- Cwm Clydach settlement
- Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-Alltwen
- Mynydd y Garth Cairn
- Tinplate works at Aberdulais Falls
- Cwm Twrch settlement
- Dorwen standing stone
- Three Round Cairns on Mynydd Drumau
- Scott's Pit Engine House & Traces of Ancillary Buildings
- Banwen Gwys Round Cairns
- Pen-Rhiw-Angharad Round Cairns
- Ynysgedwyn Colliery, Fan House
- Carn Cornel Round Cairn
- Saith Maen
- Bwlch y Ddeuwynt Round Cairn
- Abercrave Ironworks
- Mynydd March Hywel Round Cairn
- Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway (Parsons Folly) Section on Cefn Morfudd
- Lorfa stone circle
- Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm
- Neath Abbey Ironworks Dam
- Blaen-Cwmbach Earthwork
History of Ystalyfera
In 1838 a furnace was built by James Palmer Budd at Ystalyfera and from this grew the iron and tinplate works which by 1863 was described as ‘the largest tinplate manufactory in the world’. A new cold-blast process was successfully introduced here and, despite some early crises, the works prospered. By the mid-1850s there were forty furnaces for puddling and balling in operation and sixteen tin mills and houses. The output of iron increased from the 4,893 tons of 1843 to 29,828 tons in 1858. The works continued to grow during the 1860s and reached peak production in 1872 with the sale of 182,000 boxes of tinplate.