Tours in Blaenau Gwent

HistoryPoints and Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council are creating QR-code trails for anyone to follow by using a smartphone to scan the QR codes at the featured locations.

The QR code at each place links to a page on the HistoryPoints website with a short history of the place or object, and a link to the next place along the trail.

You can also follow the trails virtually – use the links below to start your chosen trail online.

Abertillery

Click here to start the town trail tour at the Metropole

Ebbw Vale (details coming soon)

News

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Shedding light on sheepfolds

May 17, 2025

Large, multi-cell sheepfolds are a feature of the Carneddau uplands, in Eryri National Park, and now we've started placing QR codes near some of them for walkers to discover their purpose and ...

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Spanning change in Abertillery

May 10, 2025

Foundry Bridge in Abertillery was built to cross a railway and river, but now both have vanished from view - along with the eponymous foundry. A new HistoryPoints QR code at the bridge reveal that the structure replaced a Victorian level crossing where four people had died. You ...

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Cardigan PoW's updates in 1918

May 2, 2025

Edith Davies of the Eagle Inn, Cardigan, was receiving occasional news from her husband Daniel - a prisoner of war in Germany - when she gave birth to their son in August 1918. Daniel survived captivity. After the Armistice, he sent ...

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