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NPRN
421044
Map Reference
SO20SW
Grid Reference
SO2205000240
Unitary (Local) Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Old County
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanhilleth
Type Of Site
COLLIERY
Period
Post Medieval
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Llanhilleth colliery was situated either side of the Monmouthshire West and Valleys line railway at Llanhilleth. A shaft was first sunk in the 1850s and a second in 1865. The colliery slowed production after the Second World War and closed in 1965.
RCAHMW, 2015