Introduction
Bedwellty Park is an early-19th-century urban landscape park, with particularly interesting rockwork, a well-preserved icehouse, and clumps of trees on artificial mounds. Recreational buildings and specimen tree planting date from the early-20th century.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Website
http://bedwelltyhouseandpark.comAccess contact details
Bedwellty Park is a public park.
Directions
Bedwellty Park is situated at the south end of the town centre in Tredegar.
Owners
Tredegar Town Council
Bedwellty House, Bedwellty Park, Morgan Street, Tredegar Blaenau Gwent, NP22 3XN
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Designations
Conservation Area
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW (Gt) 39
- Grade: II
Features
- Icehouse
- Description: The icehouse is a single-storey stone building with a belfry. There is a single room inside it with an egg-shaped, brick-lined ice chamber.
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- Tree Clump
- Description: Clumps of beech trees were planted on artifical mounds to the south of the park.
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- Rockwork
- Description: Unusual water-worn rockwork was used in many ways in the park. It surrounds pools and lines channels between them, lines paths and marks out circular compartments.
- House (featured building)
- Description: The house is now used by the Town Council.
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- Gate
- Description: Memorial gates.
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- Cenotaph
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- Kitchen Garden
- Pond
- Pavilion
- Description: The Long Shelter.
- Bandstand
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- Grotto
- Key Information
Type
Park
Purpose
Recreational/sport
Principal Building
Civil
Survival
Extant
Hectares
10.5
Open to the public
Yes
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Bedwellty Park' in Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent (Cardiff: Cadw, 1994), 12-4 Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Bedwellty Park, Tredegar',