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Claypon took over Christie's assets, and came to the conclusion that shipping lime, coal, iron ore and quicklime south to the larger industrial premises in the southern Swansea Valley was more productive than trying to serve a small rural population of the Usk valley to the north. They quickly sold
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created the final closure, as the need to scale production upwards for the larger coastal meant the heavily manual process of Penwyllt quarry was uneconomic compared to other British and foreign facilities which could bulk ship by sea. The Penwyllt Inn, or 'Stump' as it was often known, closed in
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The quarry, though not the railway, re-opened in 2007 to provide limestone for the works associated with a new gas pipeline being laid through South Wales. In 2008 it was again dormant. In 2009 it was operational but at a relatively low level of activity.
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line. The line north of the station closed to Brecon, and by the end of the 1960s the population had fallen to 20 people. The railway line south to Neath remained open until 1977 to serve the quarry until it ceased major production and effectively closed.
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cyn.JPG :: Craig y Nos Station at Penwyllt looking north on 14 April 2006. The Neath & Brecon line to this point lingered on to serve the adjacent quarry until 1977 (officially closed 1981)
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As industrial activity declined with reducing economic stocks of coal, iron ore and limestone and the development of new technologies on a larger scale on the coast of South Wales, particularly at
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Christie was declared bankrupt in 1827 and most of his assets, including the tramroad, eventually passed to his principal creditor, Joseph Claypon, of the banking house of Garfit & Claypon in
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a bank of four kilns near the Penwyllt Inn erected in around 1863 to 1867 by, it is thought, the Brecon Coal & Lime Co. There is a loading bank for railway wagons in front of the kilns
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The former pub survives as private accommodation for cavers. The former Craig-y-nos station survives in reasonable repair as a private holiday cottage. Patti Row, a historic block of
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or leased the farms and developments north of Fforest Fawr and concentrated on expanding the lime kilns at or around Penwyllt. In total there were fifteen lime kilns at Penwyllt:
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Subsequently, Penwyllt also supported the Penwyllt Dinas Silica Brick company, which quarried silica sand at Pwll Byfre from which it manufactured refractory bricks, a form of
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Many of the former industrial buildings, commercial properties and houses of Penwyllt were demolished in the early 1980s, being both beyond economic repair and unneeded.
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still occupied are in Powell Street and form the headquarters of the South Wales Caving Club, and the South & Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team SWCC Cottage
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Matthews, Helen, (1991), "Penwyllt Village, Growth, Development and Decline", Local History Dissertation, University College of Swansea (25MB pdf file)
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between 1836 and 1842, the bank of seven kilns has been largely destroyed by quarry tipping. Only one draw arch can now be seen
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The 1825 and 1827 kilns built by Joseph Claypon have been largely demolished, although the single draw arch can still be seen
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in the industrial processes in the lower Swansea Valley, taking limestone from the quarries and turning it into quicklime in
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Barrie, D.S.M., A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol. 12 South Wales. David & Charles, 1980.
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in the UK. A corresponding area on the surface is also part of the national nature reserve, on the slopes of
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and silica brick production centre, its fortunes rose and fell as a result of the Industrial Revolution in
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A detailed account of the history of Penwyllt and its industries was provided by Matthews(1991).
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through Fforest Fawr by way of the limestone quarries at Penwyllt to the Drim Colliery near
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two lime kilns created in the railway age by "Jeffreys, Powell and Williams", dated 1878
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An historic and photographic exploration of Penwyllt by John Ball and Venita Roylance
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was filmed in Penwyllt to stand in for the fictional village of Brynblaidd in the
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The Brecon Forest Tramroads: the archaeology of an early railway system
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Hughes, Stephen, The Brecon Forest Tramroads, RCAHM in Wales, 1990,
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1948, and in October 1962 all passenger services were withdrawn by
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1988 Aerial shot of Penwyllt quarry and railway at Casglu'r Tlysau
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Beneath Penwyllt and the surrounding area is the extensive
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mainline. An early and unsuccessful purchaser of the new
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Penwyllt developed primarily as a result of the need for
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Victorian Ystradgynlais - The Brecon Forest Tramroad
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The Colliery Guardian, Vol 85 pp1325-6, 19 June 1903
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Photos of Penwyllt and surrounding area on geograph
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Index


Welsh
hamlet
Swansea Valley
Wales
Brecon Beacons National Park
Brecknockshire
Powys
quarrying
quicklime
South Wales
caving
Tawe-Uchaf
limestone
cave
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
national nature reserve
Carreg Cadno
quicklime
lime kilns
fire brick
narrow-gauge railway
brickworks
Neath and Brecon Railway
Great Western Railway
Fforest Fawr
John Christie
Brecon
Brecon Forest Tramroad
Sennybridge

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