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:
- Banwen Gwys Round Cairns
- Blaen-Cwmbach Earthwork
- Carn Cornel Round Cairn
- Lefel Fawr Coal Adit
- Ynysgedwyn Colliery, Fan House
- Remains of Blast Furnace at Melin Court
- Standing Stones 300m W of Cefncelfi
- Canal Aqueduct over the River Twrch, Ystalyfera
- Coed Ddu house platforms and enclosure
- Pen-Rhiw-Angharad Round Cairns
- Crimea Colliery & Canal Quay
- Carreg Bica Standing Stone
- Three Round Cairns on Mynydd Drumau
- Neath Abbey Ironworks Dam
- Cefn Morfydd Dyke & Earthwork
- Cwm Twrch settlement and limekiln
- Cairn on Mynydd-March-Hywel
- Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm
- Bryn Llechwen ring cairn
- Remains of Lock and Dry Dock at Pantyffynnon
- Cilybebyll Auxiliary Unit Operational Base
- Lorfa stone circle
- House Platforms West of Dyffryn Wood
- Moel Gornach settlement
- Cribarth Limestone Quarries and Tramroads
- Canal Boat at Aberdulais Basin
- Bwlch y Ddeuwynt Round Cairn
- Abercrave Ironworks
- Carn Fadog round cairn
- Coed Ddu ring cairn
- Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad Incline
- Llwyncwmstabl round cairn
- Mynydd March Hywel Round Cairn
- Scott's Pit Engine House & Traces of Ancillary Buildings
- Dorwen standing stone
- Aberdulais Aqueduct
- Carn Pen-Rhiw-Ddu
- Blaen-Cwmbach Camp
- Blaen y Cylchau Deserted Rural Settlement
- Cwm Clydach settlement
- Hut Circle West of Saith Maen
- Carn Pen-y-Clogau
- Tinplate works at Aberdulais Falls
- Three Round Cairns on Carn Caca
- Cwm Twrch settlement
- Nant Tawe Fechan Burnt Mound
- Pont Clydach settlement
- Hirfynydd Roman Earthwork
- Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd Drumau
- Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-Alltwen
- Saith Maen
- Mynydd y Garth Cairn
- Tramroad at Ystradgynlais
- Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway (Parsons Folly) Section on Cefn Morfudd
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.