Bedwelty Park

Come and explore this fine example of an ironmaster’s residence built in 1818, surrounded by a 26 acre Victorian garden and park. A Grade II listed building, home of the Homfray family the co-founders of the Tredegar Ironworks. This probably the finest example of an Ironmaster’s residence in Gwent.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was a ”low thatched-roof cottage”. The old house was renovated in 1809, but rebuilt and enlarged in 1818. The house is surrounded by parkland originally designed as a Dutch garden around which one could walk or ride without being confronted by gate, fence or outside features. Inside there is a splendid photographic exhibition of Tredegar’s history in the Assembly Rooms.

Apart from the Ice House (below) visitors are invited to see the bandstand recently, restored to its Edwardian glory, the gazebo, duck ponds, and the world famous lump of coal – 15 tons hewn in a single block for the great exhibition in 1851!

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The Ice House, Bedwellty Park

Open - 2.00pm - 5.00pm

The Ice House consists of an upper building of stone with a brick-lined chamber below. Built in 1818 it functioned to store ice for domestic purposes. It is rare for another building to be placed over an ice house but this example is of exceptional interest in that it is surmounted by what is believed to have been the owners’ private chapel. The tower on the upper building houses the original bell from the Town Hall School, cast at Tredegar Ironworks in 1837.

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Directions

Take the Tredegar turn off the A465 Heads of the Valley Road. Proceed along the bypass road and take the third exit at the fifth roundabout. Travel along Promenade D’Orvault and up the hill and park in the public car park in Morgan Street, approx. 100 meters down from the town clock.

Visitors travelling from the south along the A4048 should take the first exit on the second roundabout on the Tredegar Bypass. Travel along Promenade D’Orvault and up the hill and park in the public car park in Morgan Street, approx. 100 meters down from the town clock.