Porth Wen Brickworks: October 2022
Porth Wen Brickworks is a disused Victorian brickmaking plant on the western side of Porth Wen. The brickworks, built by Charles E Tidy, produced fire bricks, made from quartzite and used to line steel-making furnaces.
Brickmaking had ceased by the 1940s, but many of the buildings and some of the machinery remain and the site is a now scheduled ancient monument.
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