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Swansea Canal Morfa Copper Works basin

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 01046.35w
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Landore
Unitary authority : Swansea
NGR : SS6601095280
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL Canal wharf

Summary :
Wharf on the Swansea Canal associated with the Morfa Copperworks.

Description :
Wharf on the Swansea Canal associated with the Morfa Copperworks.

The canal basin, to the east of the canal, was constructed circa. 1828 to serve the Morfa Copperworks rolling mill. It was infilled between 1879 and 1899 and is currently overlaid by a yellow brick floor surface. Reference: The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Site: A Site Appraisal (N Ludlow, 2002).

Sources :
Ludlow, N , 2002 , The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Site: A Site Appraisal ( © Dyfed Archaeological Trust)
01/map/OS/1878

Events :
E004887 : The Yorkshire Imperial Metals site, Swansea (year : 2002)
E006386 : Morfa Distributor Road, Swansea (year : 2015)
E007585 : Hafod-Morfa Copperworks, Neath Road, Swansea (year : 2018)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00841w
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 08087w
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 08091w

Compiled date : 08-03-1998


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