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Yorkshire Imperial Metals, Landore, Swansea

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 08087w
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Landore
Unitary authority : Swansea
NGR : SS66209515
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL COPPER WORKS

Summary :
The Hafod and Morfa Copperworks were merged in 1924. The combined site was subsequently taken over by Yorkshire Imperial Metals in 1957. The site closed in 1980 and much of it was subsequently cleared for civic developments. However a number of the buildings remain, mostly in a derelict condition.

Description :
The Hafod and Morfa Copperworks were merged under the ownership of British Copper Manufacturers Ltd in 1924. This company was absorbed by ICI Metals Division in 1928. The combined site was subsequently taken over by Yorkshire Imperial Metals in 1957.

The site closed in 1980 and was sold to the then Swansea City Council. Much of the site was subsequently cleared for civic developments but a number of the buildings remain, mostly in a derelict condition.

Full development and historical timelines, and a detailed survey of extant buildings and the areas which surround them, may be found in the report: The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Site: A Site Appraisal (N Ludlow, 2002).

The individual works also have separate PRNs (Hafod: 00842w, and Morfa: 00841w) as do significant buildings and features, listed in Cross references below.


Sources :
Ludlow, N , 2002 , The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Site: A Site Appraisal ( © Dyfed Archaeological Trust)

Events :
E004887 : The Yorkshire Imperial Metals site, Swansea (year : 2002)
E004114 : Hafod Copperworks Buildings Swansea (year : 2012)
E007585 : Hafod-Morfa Copperworks, Neath Road, Swansea (year : 2018)

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Compiled date : 24-02-2016


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