Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Blaenavon Industrial Landscape' has mentioned 'Iron' in the following places:
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The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone. | WIKI |
The Industrial Revolution in Britain was based on iron and coal, the main products of the South Wales valleys. | WIKI |
Production of pig iron in the region grew from 39,600 tons in 1796 to 666,000 tons in 1852, and the iron was used to build railways, factories and engines around the world. | WIKI |
[1] Blaenavon was an important centre of coal mining and iron making in South Wales during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. | WIKI |
[3] The area is an excellent example of an industrial landscape formed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by mining and iron making activities. | WIKI |
Extant buildings from the early industrial period include Ty-Mawr (Big House) also known as Blaenavon House, built for Iron Master, Samuel Hopkins, in 1791, worker's housing terraces, St. Peter's Church (1804), St. Peter's School (1816) and the Blaenavon Workmen's Hall (1894). | WIKI |
[2] There are traces of horse-drawn railways, tunnels and inclines that were used to carry iron ore, coal and limestone to the ironworks, and to carry pig iron to the Garnddyrys Forge. | WIKI |
[1] Waymarked footpaths follow the tracks of the earliest iron railways. | WIKI |
The boundary of the property includes the main monuments of the mining and iron working settlement, in remarkably good condition, and the remains of mine, quarry and transport infrastructure. | WIKI |
The landscape of Blaenavon, at the upper end of the Avon Llwyd valley in South Wales, provides exceptional testimony to the areaxe2x80x99s international importance in iron making and coal mining in the late 18th and the early 19th century. | UNESCO |
The area reflects the pre-eminence of South Wales in the production of iron, steel and coal in the 19th century. | UNESCO |
The Blaenavon landscape reflects ways in which all the raw materials necessary for making iron were obtained. | UNESCO |
Close to the Ironworks and Big Pit is the town of Blaenavon, the best preserved iron town of its period in the United Kingdom. | UNESCO |
Taking all these elements together, the property provides one of the prime areas in the world where the full social, economic and technological process of industrialisation through iron and coal production can be studied and understood. | UNESCO |
The boundary of the World Heritage property encompasses the major monuments, the mining settlement as well as the surrounding valley landscape with its extensive remains of coal and ore mining, quarrying, primitive iron railways, and canals and thus includes all the key attributes of this early industrial period during the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. | UNESCO |
These substantial and interrelated remains provide opportunities to comprehend the complex process of industrialisation through iron and coal production and the development of industrial society during the early formative years of the Industrial Revolution. | UNESCO |