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Dist:0.4km<br/>Viewed across the Sirhowy Valley, Troedrhiwgwair was originally known as Himalaya Range. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/tredegar/troed.html
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.4km<br/>There used to be 161 houses in Troedrhiwgwair, along with a school, a library, a pub, shops etc. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/tredegar/tredpage.html#troed . However, after the Aberfan disaster, engineers were afraid that the hillside might collapse onto the houses. Because of movement in the mountain the school was closed down in the 1960s and most of the village was moved out in the 1970s to new houses at Peacehaven. Some residents refused to move and their houses can still be seen, with gaps in between where the other houses were removed. The river in the picture is the Sirhowy, which meanders down this part of the valley between the remains of coal tips.
©Jessica Aidley
Dist:0.4km<br/>These are the remains of the old school in the village of Troedrhiwgwair. The school and the village featured in the TV programme 'The District Nurse' starring Nerys Hughes. See the text accompanying the picture of 'Troedrhiwgwair from Bedwellty Pits' for more information.
©Nick Toulson
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.4km<br/>The end of the road and the turning point at the village of Troedrhiwgwair.
©Nick Toulson
Dist:0.5km<br/>A reminder of the industrial past of this area.
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.5km<br/>The River Sirhowy runs through the foreground trees. The main field beyond this is a landscaped coal tip. Note that contours are not shown for this field http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=SO155065 .
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Railway houses.
©Sally Lloyd
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©Colin Pyle
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©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.8km<br/>From the Man-moel Road along the ridge, looking west to a prominent, but disused barn. The ridge drops steeply into the Sirhowy Valley.
©Graham Horn
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©andy dolman
Dist:0.9km<br/>This is one of a pair of lumps of iron slag about3 metres high on the open ground south of Peacehaven and just off the new Sirhowy valley cycleway
©nantcoly
Dist:0.9km<br/>This one is looking north-west towards Tredegar in the Sirhowy Valley below. Its mainly flat moorland in this square. The farm buildings are just in the next square.
©Graham Horn
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©andy dolman

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