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Crimea Colliery and Canal Quay

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 02889w
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Ystalyfera
Unitary authority : Neath Port Talbot
NGR : SN75700730
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL Colliery
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
A very short-lived colliery, sunk in 1854 and closed in 1862. There are substantial remains of several finely built structures of dressed sandstone: a beam pumping engine house, a winding engine house, a chimney, and other walls and minor features. Th

Description :
A very short-lived colliery, sunk in 1854 and closed in 1862. There are substantial remains of several finely built structures of dressed sandstone: a beam pumping engine house, a winding engine house, a chimney, and other walls and minor features. The beam engine house is complete almost to gable height, but lintels have begun to fail on one side. There is a small amount of coal spoil on the site, and at the bottom of the slope is a stone built tipping stage adjoining the route of the Swansea Canal.
The site is of particular importance in showing the complete surface layout of a colliery of the mid C19th, undisturbed by subsequent alterations or redevelopment.
The whole area is currently disused and overgrown.

Sources :
Cadw , Cadw Scheduled Monument Record
01/PM List/Cadw/1995/SAM Lists
02/Desc Text/Cadw/ Full Management Report/2005/Copy in further information file

Events :

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 94711 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/94711/details
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 01046.0W

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