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May 31, 2025

Ebbw Vale's good cause-way

Ebbw Vale's 18th-century ironmasters did future generations a favour when they built a causeway to carry iron ore from one side of the valley to their furnaces on the other. Horses hauled the ore on a tramway and the level ...

route was less tiring and more efficient than descending to the valley floor and then climbing. The tram rails have long gone but today the causeway, part of the B4486 road, still provides easy access from the Newtown area to the town centre. For more information and old photos, use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR code on the causeway, or click here.

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Newport mam who defied the Gestapo

Jul 13, 2025

Hitler's Gestapo got angry with Mabel Wulff when she refused to hand over the British Legion flag of the Anglican church in Hamburg. Now you can scan a HistoryPoints QR code outside her former home, 84 Church Road in Newport, to discover how she outwitted ...

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Golfers versus the godly in Gwbert

Jul 5, 2025

There was strong rivalry between Christian denominations in Wales, but in 1909 golfers at the new nine-hole course in Gwbert, near Cardigan, achieved the feat of unifying them all. Their leaders signed a joint letter ...

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A Pen-y-pass ritual in 1682

Jun 28, 2025

Pen-y-pass, the starting point of some of the most popular paths up Yr Wyddfa, was the scene of a bizarre ritual when historian Edward Llwyd visited in 1682, as you can discover if you scan the new HistoryPoints QR code at the ...

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