Gallowsgreen
Gallowsgreen is a village in Blaenavon, Torfaen County Borough, Wales. Gallowsgreen is situated nearby to the village Cwmavon, as well as near Varteg.Places of Interest
Highlights include Blaenavon High Level railway station and Blaenavon Ironworks.
Blaenavon High Level railway station
Railway station
Blaenavon High Level is a railway station on the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, serving the World Heritage Site and town of Blaenavon, south Wales.
Blaenavon Ironworks
Museum
Photo: Alan Stanton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales. The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide. Blaenavon Ironworks is situated 2 miles northwest of Gallowsgreen.
Big Pit National Coal Museum
Museum
Photo: Arafi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Big Pit National Coal Museum is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit Trust. Big Pit National Coal Museum is situated 2 miles northwest of Gallowsgreen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cwmavon and Varteg.
Cwmavon
Village
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Cwmavon is a hamlet about 2 miles south of Blaenavon and 4 miles north of Pontypool. The hamlet is part of the community of Abersychan in the county borough of Torfaen in south east Wales, and is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire.
Varteg
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Varteg is a village in the county borough of Torfaen in Wales.
Garndiffaith
Suburb
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garndiffaith is a village located in Torfaen, south east Wales. It is a small rural area situated between Talywain and Varteg, three miles north of the town of Pontypool and 3.5 miles south of the town of Blaenavon.
Gallowsgreen
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Blaenavon, Torfaen County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75552° or 51° 45′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.06181° or 3° 3′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C3RQW4Q+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 767104587OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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