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    Pontypool Museum The Shell Grotto - Pontypool Park. Information on Shell Grotto from Torfaen Borough County Photographs of the interior of the grotto...
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    A shell grotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shell grotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th...
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    Gardens Pontypool Park Rugby Ground, home of Pontypool RFC Folly Tower, Pontypool Shell Grotto, Pontypool Schubert 1957, pp. 423–430. Cadw. "St. Alban's...
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    Brecon Canal Pontypool Park Folly Tower, Pontypool Shell Grotto, Pontypool Pontymoile Basin Torfaen Museum See also Category:People from Pontypool Aimee-Ffion...
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    just south of Mynydd Garn-Wen. Less than a mile from the folly is the Shell Grotto. The precise date of construction is unknown but it is generally thought...
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  • Hoarstone in Pontypool Park (which now houses St. Alban's R.C. High School and Pontypool Museum). He also built the Shell Grotto, Pontypool and Folly Tower...
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    park contains Pontypool Leisure Centre and sports facilities and is the home of Pontypool RFC. The park includes a folly, shell grotto and ornamental...
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    a hermit's retreat with resident hermit, a Turkish tent, a shell-encrusted water grotto and other features. In France they sometimes took the form of...
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    Trevethin (category Suburbs of Pontypool)
    Trevethin are various famous landmarks including the Folly Tower and Shell Grotto both of which were originally built by the Hanbury family during the...
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    the creation of the Monmouthshire Canal, the Newport and Pontypool Railway and the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway. Very little of this industrial...
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    British Listed Buildings. Cadw. "Shell Grotto (3112)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019. "Shell Grotto". British Listed Buildings...
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    its source northwest of Blaenavon, through Abersychan, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, Llanfrechfa and Cwmbran before flowing, at Caerleon, into the River Usk...
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    Abersychan is a town and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, and lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the...
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    "War Memorials Register: Abersychan and Pontypool gates". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2020. "Pontypool war memorial". historypoints.org. Retrieved...
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    the European Route of Industrial Heritage), Blaenavon Ironworks, the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway and Blaenavon World Heritage Centre. The town has...
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    New Inn (category Suburbs of Pontypool)
    (Welsh: Y Dafarn Newydd) is a village and community directly south east of Pontypool, within the County Borough of Torfaen in Wales, within the historic boundaries...
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    (13 km) north of Newport in south Wales. The reservoir is very close to Pontypool, Cwmbran and Usk, with the boundary between Monmouthshire and Torfaen...
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    Pontymoile Basin (category Pontypool)
    Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. The basin lies on the Pontypool stretch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal in the Pontypool suburb of Pontymoile in the county borough...
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    Wales. It is adjacent to Griffithstown, between the towns of Cwmbran and Pontypool. The village is best known for Panteg Steel Works, which closed in 2004...
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    Ironworks Big Pit National Coal Museum Folly Tower Garndiffaith Viaduct Shell Grotto Rivers and canals Afon Lwyd Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal Pontymoile...
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    south-east Wales. It should not be confused with Pontnewynydd in nearby Pontypool. An 18th century settlement within the historical parish of Llanfrechfa...
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    Pontymoile (category Suburbs of Pontypool)
    Pontymoile (Welsh: Pont-y-moel) is a suburb of Pontypool in Torfaen, South Wales. It is all but merged with the nearby suburbs of Cwmynyscoy and Upper...
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    Learning. Pontypool: Torfaen County Borough Council. Retrieved 29 April 2016. "Henllys Church in Wales Primary". Education & Learning. Pontypool: Torfaen...
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    and a community in Torfaen, South East Wales. It lies to the west of Pontypool in the valley leading west to Crumlin. It lies in the historic county...
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  • the Torfaen county borough, south Wales. Abersychan Blaenafon Cwmbran Pontypool Sebastopol Griffithstown Cwmafon Pontnewydd Pontnewynydd Croesyceiliog...
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  • community comprises the electoral wards of Brynwern, Cwmyniscoy, and Pontypool. Trevethin community comprises the electoral wards of St Cadocs and Penygarn...
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    Ironworks Big Pit National Coal Museum Folly Tower Garndiffaith Viaduct Shell Grotto Rivers and canals Afon Lwyd Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal Pontymoile...
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