The Guest Keen
The Guest Keen is a building in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The Guest Keen is situated near Community Nature Garden, as well as near the sports venue Guest Memorial Social & Bowls Club.- Type: Building
- Description: historic building in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil
- Also known as: “Former Guest Memorial Library”, “Guest Keen”, and “Guest Memorial Library and Reading Room”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Dowlais Works Blast Engine House and Bethania Chapel, Dowlais.
Dowlais Works Blast Engine House
Building
Dowlais Works Blast Engine House is a building, which is situated 540 feet southwest of The Guest Keen.
Bethania Chapel, Dowlais
Chapel
Bethania, Dowlais was a Welsh Independent, or Congregationalist, chapel in South Street, Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The cause was established in 1824 and the chapel rebuilt on several occasions in the nineteenth century. Bethania Chapel, Dowlais is situated 1,500 feet southwest of The Guest Keen.
Dowlais Works Stables
Building
Dowlais Works Stables is a building, which is situated 840 feet west of The Guest Keen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dowlais and Pant.
Dowlais
Suburb
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.
Pant
Village
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.
Gurnos
Suburb
Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate. The population in 2011 was 5,280.
The Guest Keen
- Categories: library building, social club, library, and reading room
- Location: Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.76185° or 51° 45′ 43″ north
Longitude
-3.34904° or 3° 20′ 57″ west
Open location code
9C3RQM62+P9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“The Guest Keen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “The Guest Keen”
- Catalan: “The Guest Keen”
- French: “The Guest Keen”
- Irish: “The Guest Keen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “The Guest Keen”
- Swedish: “The Guest Keen”
- Welsh: “The Guest Keen”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Community Nature Garden and Guest Memorial Social & Bowls Club.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Dowlais Primary School Nursery and Dowlais Primary School.
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