Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute, Blackwood

Name: Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute
Address: High Street, Blackwood, NP12 1BB, United Kingdom

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The Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute is a Grade II* listed building located at the north end of Blackwood High Street in Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales. Built in 1925, it was originally used as a single floor snooker hall but was expanded eleven years later. It was sold to Islwyn Borough Council in 1989 after falling into disrepair and was reopened as an entertainment venue. ()

Coordinates: 51°40'10"N, 3°11'45"W

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High StreetBlackwood NP12 1BB United Kingdom

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Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pen-y-fan Pond, Guardian Sculpture, Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Twmbarlwm.

2.4 miNE
Park
Pen-y-fan Pond, Blackwood
62 min walk • Pen-y-fan Pond is a man-made reservoir in South Wales built around 1794-6 as part of the engineering works for the Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire Canal. The reservoir was used to maintain the water level in the canal.
4.3 miNE
Monuments and statues
Guardian Sculpture
110 min walk • The Guardian is a 20 m tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen.
3.8 miW
Historical place, Forts and castles, Entertainment
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Caerphilly
97 min walk • Llancaiach Fawr Manor is a Tudor manor house near the village of Nelson, located just to the north of the site of the former Llancaiach Colliery in the heart of the Rhymney Valley in South Wales.
5.2 miSE
Mountain, Park, Trail
Twmbarlwm, Caerphilly
133 min walk • Twmbarlwm, also known as Twm Barlwm, Twyn Barlwm or locally known as "the Twmp", the Nipple or the Pimple because of the mound that lies at its summit, is a hill situated 2 km to the northeast of Risca in South Wales.
3.9 miNE
Cemetery
St Illtyd's Church
100 min walk • St Illtyd's Church is a deconsecrated church in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. A Grade II* listed building, it is the oldest standing building in the county borough. The use of the site for worship dates back to pre-Norman times, with references to the church in a poem written in the 9th or 10th century.
5.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Twyn-glas
133 min walk • Mynydd Twyn-glas is a sprawling 472-metre-high mountain extending into Caerphilly and Torfaen county boroughs in South Wales. It lies southwest of Pontypool, west of Cwmbran and east of Newbridge and taking the form of a rolling plateau the margins of which are defined by steep slopes, many of which are cloaked with conifer plantations.
4.9 miNE
51°43'48"N • 3°8'2"W
Abertillery & District Museum, Abertillery
127 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
5.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Eglwysilan
132 min walk • Mynydd Eglwysilan is a 355-metre-high hill in the Caerphilly county borough in South Wales 3 km to the south of Nelson and a similar distance southwest of Ystrad Mynach. To its south is Senghenydd at the head of the Aber Valley.
4.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd y Grug
108 min walk • Mynydd y Grug is a hill lying just west of the village of Cwmfelinfach and about 4 km to the northeast of Caerphilly in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales.
2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Rhymney Valley
62 min walk • The Rhymney Valley is one of the South Wales valleys, with the Rhymney River forming the border between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Between 1974 and 1996 a Rhymney Valley local government district also existed.
1.9 miSW
Church
St Anne's Church
49 min walk • St Anne's Church, Cefn Hengoed is a disused Church in Wales church in Cefn Hengoed, Caerphilly in South Wales. The church dates from 1939 and was founded by Reverend John Owen Williams, who had started a cottage Sunday school in Cefn Hengoed in 1931.