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After Hammet's death in 1802 the estate passed to his son, John. By 1806 the works were demolished and on John's early death in 1811 the house contents were sold. When Sir
Benjamin's wife Lady Louisa died in 1824 the estate was sold to Abel Anthony Gower of Glandovan, who let the property. On Gower's
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which ran through the estate and to reroute it further south to skirt the estate. This entailed building the
Castell Malgwyn bridge over the "canal", a conduit which fed water to the tinworks, and Hammet Bridge over the Morgenau brook. The grounds were landscaped by local landscaper, Charles Price.
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to build the lodge, grand entrance and stable court. When he also died young in 1849 his widow remained in residence until her own death in 1886, when it passed to Abel Lewes's brother, Robert
Frederick Gower, who had also inherited Glandovan from their father. Castell Malgwyn passed down in the
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in 1782. He had originally bought the estate to acquire the associated tinplate works at nearby
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