Explore Pontygwaith Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Pontygwaith plaques & local Pontygwaith history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Pontygwaith.
About Pontygwaith
Pontygwaith (Welsh,”Bridge to work” or “Bridge of the Ironworks”) is a village situated in the Merthyr Valley, (now referred to as the Taff Valley), South Wales. A Sussex Ironmaster named Anthony Morley set up a small ironworks here in 1583. On 21 February 1804 Richard Trevithick ran the first ever steam locomotive along tracks from Penydarren to Abercynon. The original village was inhabited and existed until approx 1977 as a terrace of ten houses and a farm.
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plaques Walkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Pontygwaith history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Pontygwaith plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Pontygwaith’s physical Pontygwaith plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Pontygwaith the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Pontygwaith plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 47 unique history facts in Pontygwaith plus 3 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Pontygwaith history map for you to explore.”