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This picture shows the terrace of cottages in the last picture,
but from a point on the Coety mountain opposite. In front of us is a heather-covered
bluff then the valley drops away below.You can see how the cottages nestle into
the valley side. Just beneath them is the main road, and in front of that (not
visible here) is the Afon Lywd river course in the valley bed. To the right is
the site of the old forge and the Blorenge mountain rises behind. Over the trees
is the Usk valley and the canal at Llanover is less than three miles away, but
it's quite a climb and would have been an insurmountable obstacle in the early
19th century. The slopes have been reforested as the original forests were denuded,
probably to make charcoal for the early furnaces. |
