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The Story of Torfaen

Farm tools on display at Pontypool Museum

 

 

 

Torfaen - Pre 1570

Four hundred years ago, before industrialisation, the valley was almost entirely agricultural. The landscape was made of small farmsteads scattered on the valley sides and small groups of houses clustered near watermills and churches. The valley bottom was covered by woods and copses, some of which still survive.

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Edited from text by Adrian Babbidge, 1980
Copyright Torfaen Museum Trust, 2002