CLYDACH FOUNDRY; PLAYER'S WORKS, CLYDACH
Site Details
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NPRN 40445
Map Reference SN60SE
Grid Reference SN68720088
Unitary (Local) Authority Swansea
Old County Glamorgan
Community Clydach
Type of Site IRON WORKS
Broad Class INDUSTRIAL
Period 19th Century, Post Medieval
Site Description This Clydach Foundry site was the first of many to use surplus lock-water from the Swansea Canal to provide water power. A waterwheel, built in 1829, provided the blast for the foundry. The wheel house survives and latterly housed a water turbine. It was taken out in the early 1980s and now lies in the yard. A timber foundry crane also survives.
(Site entry from "A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region", Association for Industrial Archaeology, 2nd Edition, 1989)
J Hill, RCAHMW, 23 October 2003
