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Swansea Ramblers Walk


Parc Slip

A 6-mile Saturday walk

30th March 2024

Leader: Roger Brown




Swansea Ramblers travelled to Parc Slip near Bridgend for a walk in the country park.

The rain over the winter had made many of the paths very muddy so we instead used the hard-surfaced paths (and in places even those resembled streams!).

We passed by the Bedford Park Iron Foundry then made our way to the Memorial for the 1892 Parc Slip Colliery Explosion.   Here we had lunch just as the rain started.   We had a heavy but short shower on the way back to the start.   



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Photographs



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Leader Roger Brown


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We set off from Parc Slip Visitor centre


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The weather stayed dry for most of the walk


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A statue of a miner and his son


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There was a lot of surface water after the rain


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We walked past a bird hide


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Which looked over the reclaimed mining area


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The sun came out for a while


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An old mining dram


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Bedford Park Blast Furnace remains


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We stopped for lunch by the memorial to the mine explosion


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Where the names of those who died were enscribed on the brick pavement


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Another statue of the mining heritage


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This memorial was to the 1892 explosion which killed 112 miners


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Then the rain came down


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A short but very heavy shower


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But we were not far from the finish





Ordnance Survey map of the route walked
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All photographs Copyright  Andrew Morgan 2024
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