The nineteenth century town plan and steep high street still presents the atmosphere of an iron town built so close and around the ironworks (nprn 34084) themselves. It is easy to conjure up busy scenes of trains of iron rolling past Penydarren to the canal at Merthyr below.
(A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of South East Wales, AIA, 2003)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 09 December 2009.
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application/pdfAWP - Archaeology Wales Project ArchivesReport from an Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment at East Street, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. Report no: 1580. Project code: 2521. Dated 2017.
