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unusual facts about Cyfarthfa Ironworks


Cyfarthfa Ironworks

However David Tanner also did not stay long, giving up the works in 1786, the year of Bacon's death.


Isaac Wilkinson

Isaac became a foundryman in Bristol with involvement in the south Wales Dowlais Ironworks and Cyfarthfa Ironworks, and starting the Plymouth Ironworks with John Guest.


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Glamorganshire Canal

In 1786, Richard Crawshay and partners took over the lease of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, and soon engaged the canal engineer Thomas Dadford to survey a route for a canal to Cardiff.

William Crawshay

William Crawshay II (1788–1867), his son, owner of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil