Blaenavon

Blaenavon (Welsh: Blaenafon) is a town in Torfaen, South Wales. The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Blaenavon from the grounds of the Big Pit museum

Get in

• Just south of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road on the B4246 7 miles of Abergavenny.
• bus 34 from Brynmawr or X24 from Newport.

See

• 1 The Big Pit, ☏ +44 1495 790311. Dec-Jan: call for hours, Feb-Nov: 9:30AM–5PM; Underground tours: 10AM-3:30PM. The National Museum of Wales has turned this former coal mine into a look back at what mining life was like in days gone by. The highlight of the trip is an underground tour of the mine itself, led by a retired Welsh miner. Free. (updated Mar 2024)
• 2 Blaenavon Ironworks, NP4 9RN, ☏ +44 1495 792615. Free.  

Do

• 1 Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway, Broad Street, NP4 9ND, info@pbrly.co.uk.  

Buy

• 1 Blaenafon Cheddar Company, 80 Broad St, ☏ +44 1495 793123. (updated Nov 2016)

Eat

• 1 Butterflies, 31 Old Queen St,, ☏ +44 1495 791 044. (updated Nov 2016)

Sleep

• 1 Oakfield B&B, 1 Oakfield Terrace, Varteg Road, Blaenavon, Torfaen, NP4 9DS, ☏ +44 1495 792829, enquiries@oakfieldbnb.com. Family run friendly bed and breakfast accommodation in the World Heritage Site 

Go next

• Brynmawr
• Abergavenny
• Pontypool
• Cwmbran