Industrial
Mines, quarries, kilns, tramroads and mills.
Site · lead mine
The Van Mine
Ore was struck here in 1865. For about a decade the Van was one of the most profitable lead mines in Britain, with its own railway. By the 1890s it was finished.
Site · reservoirs
The Elan Valley Dams
Six dams, 73 miles of aqueduct, and water that has run to Birmingham by gravity alone since 1904.
Site · dam and reservoir
The Vyrnwy Dam
The first large masonry dam built in Britain, finished in 1888, and a straining tower designed to look like a castle on a Bavarian lake.
Site · quarry and limeworks
Llanymynech Limeworks
One of very few surviving Hoffmann continuous kilns in Britain, at the foot of a hill that has been worked for copper since the Romans and for limestone since the eighteenth century.
Site · lead mine
The Dylife Workings
Leats cut for miles along open hillside to drive one of the largest waterwheels in Wales, on a moor that supported several hundred people and now supports almost none.
Site · horse tramroad
The Brinore Tramroad
Eight miles of horse-drawn railway opened in 1815, running from a canal wharf at Talybont up over the hill to the limestone quarries and coal levels at Trefil.