Pen-y-fan Pond, Blackwood

Name: Pen-y-fan Pond
Address: Blackwood, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Blackwood

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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. ()

Elevation: 994 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°41'54"N, 3°9'50"W

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Blackwood United Kingdom

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Pen-y-fan Pond – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Guardian Sculpture, Torfaen Museum, St Illtyd's Church, Mynydd Twyn-glas.

1.9 miNE
Monuments and statues
Guardian Sculpture
49 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.
5.3 miE
Specialty museum, Art museum, Museum
Torfaen Museum, Pontypool
136 min walk • Torfaen Museum – formerly the Valley Inheritance Museum and Amgueddfa Pontypool Museum – is an accredited museum located in Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales. It is managed by the Torfaen Museum Trust.
1.6 miNE
Cemetery
St Illtyd's Church
40 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.
4.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Twyn-glas
111 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.
2.5 miNE
51°43'48"N • 3°8'2"W
Abertillery & District Museum, Abertillery
65 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
5.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Coity Mountain
130 min walk • Coity Mountain is a flat-topped mountain in the South Wales Valleys, between Blaenavon and Abertillery. The highest points of both Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent unitary authorities are at the summit of Coity Mountain.
4.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Bedwellte
119 min walk • Mynydd Bedwellte is the name given to the broad ridge of high ground between the Rhymney Valley and the Sirhowy Valley in the Valleys region of South Wales. It straddles the boundary of the unitary areas of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent.
2.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Rhymney Valley
72 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.
4.2 miSW
Church
St Anne's Church
106 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.
4.2 miS
Church
English Baptist Church
108 min walk • The English Baptist Church is a Grade II-listed Baptist church in the town of Abercarn, Caerphilly, Wales. It was built in the mid-nineteenth century to give the Baptists a church of their own. The building was extensively remodelled later in the century.
4.4 miSW
Bridge
Hengoed Viaduct
114 min walk • Hengoed Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct located above the village of Maesycwmmer, in Caerphilly county borough, South Wales. Grade II* listed, it was originally built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway across the Rhymney River, and is now part of National Cycle Route 47.