Cyfarthfa Feeder accessed from CF48 2SB

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Cyfarthfa Feeder

Accessed from CF48 2SB

Scheduled Ancient Monument ref 406786

(together with the adjacent Gurnos Quarry Tramroad)

A leat, some 1.6km long, was constructed in 1825 to provide water for the ornamental lake at Cyfarthfa Castle and, via Pont-y-cafnau, for Cyfarthfa Ironworks. The northern end of the watercourse is at a sluice on the River Taff opposite Gyrnos Quarry; it runs parallel to the earlier Gyrnos Tramroad and still supplies the lake at Cyfarthfa Castle.

Gyrnos or Gurnos Tramroad was built by the ironmaster William Crawshay in 1792 to carry limestone from Gyrnos Quarry to Cyfarthfa Ironworks. The tramroad ran south from the quarry, serving a bank of three limekilns at SO03790749 , and continuing over Pont-y-cafnau to the ironworks, a total distance of approximately 1.8km.