Visit Blaenau Gwent Places

Visit Blaenau Gwent Place – things to do & explore

  

Blaenau Gwent places overview by Walkfo

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You can visit Blaenau Gwent places and use Walkfo Blaenau Gwent to discover the history & things to do in Blaenau Gwent whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo Blaenau Gwent has 60 places on our Blaenau Gwent map with history, culture & travel facts that you explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Blaenau Gwent, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Blaenau Gwent will keep up.
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With millions of places including tourist walks, Blaenau Gwent travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our Blaenau Gwent places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to Blaenau Gwent & the surrounding areas. The Blaenau Gwent places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.

“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 60 audio facts unique to Blaenau Gwent places forming an interactive Blaenau Gwent map for you to explore.”

Walkfo’s Visit Blaenau Gwent Places Map
60 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Blaenau Gwent tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Blaenau Gwent

  

Best Blaenau Gwent places to visit

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Blaenau Gwent has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blaenau Gwent’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blaenau Gwent’s information audio spots:

Coity Mountain Coity Mountain (also spelled Coety Mountain, Welsh: Mynydd Coety) is a flat-topped mountain in the South Wales Valleys. The highest points of Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent unitary authorities are at the summit. The summit is also known as Twyn Ffynhonnau Goerion.

Guardian (sculpture) The Guardian is a 20 m (66 ft) tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen.

Six Bells Colliery Six Bells Colliery was a colliery in Abertillery, Gwent, Wales. On 28 June 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 45 of the 48 miners working in that part of the mine. The site of the explosion is now a memorial to those who died there.

Valleys Radio Valleys Radio (Welsh: Radio’r Cymoedd) was an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the heads of the South Wales Valleys. The broadcast area was covered by two transmitters, 999 kHz from Aberdare and 1116 kHz from the Ebbw Vale transmitter.

Cwm, Blaenau Gwent Cwm (from Welsh: Y Cwm, transl. The Valley) is a former coal mining village, community and electoral ward three miles (4.8 km) south of Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. In the far north of the community lies Waunlwyd.

Bedwellty Pits Halt railway station Bedwellty Pits Halt railway station was a station on the Sirhowy Railway. It was initially spelled Bedwelty, then known as Bedwellty Pits, and then known Bedwelly Pits Halt. It consisted of 2 wooden platforms to serve the workforce of the local colliery.

Mynydd Carn-y-cefn Mynydd Carn-y-cefn (grid reference SO1808) lies within the unitary area of Blaenau Gwent, formerly Monmouthshire. The broad-topped ridge runs NNW-SSE and achieves a summit height of 550 metres (1,800 ft) at a point crowned by a trig point.

Ebbw Vale Hospital Ebbw Vale Hospital was a community hospital in Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The hospital was known as Ysbyty Ynn Ybbw Vyllyllyll Vale Hospital.

Gwent Archives Gwent Archives (Welsh: Archifau Gwent) is the local records office and genealogy centre based in Ebbw Vale, South Wales for Monmouthshire. It covers the modern local authority areas of Blaenau, Caerphilly County Borough, Newport and Newport.

Steelhouse Festival Steelhouse Festival is an independent rock festival held annually in late July at Aberbeeg in South Wales, U.K. The festival is held annually at the Welsh capital, Wales.

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