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Victoria Gardens, Neath, Neath Port Talbort County Borough Council neath_gardens2

Contact Name: Colin Powell

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Contact Number: 01639686176

The project aims to conserve the heritage of the gardens, increase usage and raise public awareness of its value. Works include: restoration of bandstand, reinstatement of boundary railings, reintroduction of ornamental beds, and restoration of the memorial fountain.

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Bedwelty House and Park, Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Bedwelty_House_02225

Contact Name: David Watkins

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Contact Number: 01495 355316

The vision for the site is one of a true partnership approach between the Council and the community - working together to deliver a programme of improvement, and the reclamation and transformation of a neglected historic place. The restoration of Bedwellty House and Park will culminate in the creation of a focus for community activities, life events, education, heritage interpretation, wellbeing and local pride. It will act as showcase for a community and its rich industrial, cultural and political heritage and provide a much needed focus for tourism in Tredegar.

The project also provides an opportunity for the strategic development of the town's heritage, and the engagement of future generations in its collection, preservation and shared memory of a community. The restored house and park will include provision of office space letting and hiring the house for social/civic events, the new registry office for civil weddings and wedding receptions, a cafe, programmable exhibition space, storage space for exhibitions, a base site for a site manager, high quality facilities for park users, and flexible education spaces for all types of formal and informal learning.

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Penllergare Valley Woods, Swansea, Swansea City Council penllergare_valley2

Contact Name: Raymond Butt

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Contact Number: 01558 650735

Penllergare Valley Woods is a relict but highly significant designed historic landscape located to the northwest of Swansea, immediately south of the M4.The landscape has survived, albeit in a severely neglected state, through a turbulent century of economic, industrial and social change, on the urban fringe of Swansea. Penllergare Valley Woods occupies some 100 ha which comprises largely of woodland along the steep slopes of the valley of the River Llan, dammed in two places to form the Upper and Lower Lakes. The dam of the Upper Lake retains a substantial constructed waterfall known as the Upper Falls; the dam of the Lower Lake was breached in the 1960s. The Valley Woods has three main entrances and a number of subsidary and informal gateways. The current 19th century driveway runs along the western side of the landscape with dramatic views of the valley, local farmland and distant hills of South Wales. The drive was constructed with three lodge houses, one remains privately occupied and the other two are overgrown ruins. In the northwest corner, above the river, remain the ruins of the walled garden and derelict observatory, which once adjoined Penllergare House.

The House was demolished in the 1960s and the building site and surrounding gardens and grounds were subsequently redeveloped into offices and a car park by the local authority. However, the former wider estate that survived, including the woodland, parkland and various historic structures, is now slowly being brought back into management by a group of volunteers, trainees and Penllergare Trust staff.

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