Where is Nantyglo Round Towers?

Nantyglo Round Towers is in South Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.7853°, -3.1755°.

Gardens · South Wales

Nantyglo Round Towers

Nantyglo Round Towers — a garden in wales-south, United Kingdom.

SW roundhouse, Nantyglo - geograph.org.uk - 3661016 — Jaggery — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Nantyglo Round Towers is a garden of interest in wales-south, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Nantyglo Round Towers are located at Roundhouse Farm, Nantyglo, near Brynmawr in the borough of Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys. The two fortified towers were constructed in the early 19th century as places of retreat by the ironmaster Joseph Bailey, after a riot was caused by his brother's threat to cut wages. They are believed to some of the last privately built defensive fortifications in Britain. One of the towers remains intact today whilst the other is in ruins having been partly demolished to salvage scrap iron in the 1940s.

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Background

History

Bailey built the towers after 1816 when some of his workers rioted when his brother, Crawshay Bailey, threatened to cut their wages. Wanting a defensible retreat in case it happened again, The tower was partially demolished during the 1940s to extract the cast iron. The towers were restored in 1986–93 by the Gwent County Council and several other governmental bodies.

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