Gurnos Tower
Gurnos Tower is a monument in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Gurnos Tower is situated nearby to Pen y Dre High School, as well as near the community center Neighbourhood Learning Centre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pen y Dre High School and Morlais Castle.
Pen y Dre High School
School
Pen y Dre High School is an 11-16 mixed-sex comprehensive school situated in the Gurnos district of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Pen y Dre High School is situated 1,400 feet east of Gurnos Tower.
Morlais Castle
Ruins
Photo: Gibbinskaren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Morlais Castle is situated 3,700 feet north of Gurnos Tower.
Joseph Parry’s Cottage
Museum
Photo: Trehywel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Joseph Parry's Cottage, also known as 4 Chapel Row, is a cottage located in Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. Built in the early 19th century for ironworkers, the cottage is best known as the birthplace of the famous Welsh composer Joseph Parry. Joseph Parry’s Cottage is situated 1¼ miles south of Gurnos Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cefn-coed-y-cymmer and Pant.
Cefn-coed-y-cymmer
Suburb
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
Cefn-coed-y-cymmer is a small community on the northwestern edge of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales. It is situated in the neck of land between the rivers Taf Fawr and Taf Fechan at their confluence.
Pant
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
Dowlais
Suburb
Photo: Varitek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dowlais is a village in the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in South East Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh words du and glais. Dowlais is notable within Wales and within Great Britain as a whole, for its historic association with ironworking; once employing, through the Dowlais Iron Company, over 7,000 people, the works being at one stage the largest in the world.
Gurnos Tower
- Type: Monument
- Wheelchair access: no
- Category: historic site
- Location: Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.76725° or 51° 46′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.38386° or 3° 23′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C3RQJ88+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 9611736737OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=no
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Highlights include Neighbourhood Learning Centre and Calon Las Community Centre.
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