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©John Darch
Dist:0.1km<br/>This stone from the demolished toll house has somehow ended up being built into the front wall of Cross Keys Cottage. See [[2377855]] The inscription seems to have read "TOLL HOUSE BUILT 1885 BY D.T. JONES BROAMAN"
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.1km<br/>This cottage is directly across the road from the Cross Keys Inn. The front garden wall of the cottage contains the inscribed stone from the demolished toll house that used to stand somewhere near here ("Cross Keys" apparently being a name associated with toll gates). The stone is on the very top course of the wall near the pictured lamp post facing in towards the house. See [[2377856]] for detail. The current owner insists the cottage was a shop in older times and has never been a toll house.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is a recreation of the following 1956 photo from the Frith collection: http://www.francisfrith.com/search/wales/powys/glanaman/photos/glanaman_G249016.htm As ever, the main shapes of most of the buildings remain but the modern facades have lost their quaint features.
©Nigel Davies
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©John Darch
Dist:0.2km<br/>It appears that there was a level crossing here in the past but now vehicles must take a longer route. Pedestrians can however cross the railway line, which no longer has passenger trains, but are exhorted to "Stop, Look, Listen." The building on the left was a signal box and the garden walls in the foreground are topped with local limestone rock fragments.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is a recreation of the following 1956 photo from the Frith collection: http://www.francisfrith.com/search/wales/powys/glanaman/photos/glanaman_G249015.htm It doesn't look so much like a hotel anymore and the road has been diverted so that this is now a pedestrian-only level crossing. The trains don't even run these days but this may soon change as a local railway society is planning to reopen the line.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is a recreation of the following 1956 photo from the Frith collection: http://www.francisfrith.com/search/wales/powys/glanaman/photos/glanaman_G249023.htm Many chimneys have gone but otherwise in 50 years, only the kerb or an occasional lamp post has changed. Even the garage on the right is the same. Although the speed camera around the next corner is a new feature.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is a disused signal box along the mineral line that runs up the Amman Valley. Although technically still in use, the vegetation growing between the tracks on this railway line make it obvious that this railway hasn't seen trains for a number of years.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.4km<br/>
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>Somewhere here lie the remains of James Colton, a Scottish miner who settled in the area and became in late life (1925) the husband of the renowned anarchist Emma Goldman. It may have been a marriage of political convenience, to give her citizenship after she had been stripped of hers and expelled from America, but their surviving letters are very affectionate. He died in 1936 and his grave is not marked.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.5km<br/>This Anglican church was built in the mid 1930s and closed in 2008. I originally thought it was a chapel belonging to the Amman Valley Hospital because of its location and the fact that it had no graveyard, but I was wrong.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.5km<br/>A striking autumnal sight. All the leaves are an even shade of red.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>Now that the Amman Valley Hospital is used as a rehabilitation unit and for day surgery, these buildings are surplus to requirements. Most of the windows are boarded up and the remainder smashed. The higher land of Drysgol can be seen beyond.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.6km<br/>A small un-gated railway crossing on a railway that runs up the Amman Valley. The railway was recently refurbished for 1 Million Pounds and has allegedly had the sum total of one train run up and down the line in the last year.
©Hywel Williams

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