Overview
Coflein records Clydach Upper Forge as Forge in Wales Swansea. The exact saved period is 18th Century; Post Medieval. This makes it an industrial or working place recorded as Forge; the short national record does not by itself supply a complete history of the people, events or changes at this place.
What this place is
Coflein records Clydach Upper Forge as Forge, with the period 18th Century; Post Medieval. That supports the safe reading that this was an industrial or working place recorded as Forge.
People and events
The short record does not name owners, workers, designers, accidents or events, so none is guessed.
How it was used
The exact type gives the broad working purpose: Forge. It does not establish machinery, products, workforce or operating dates beyond the saved period.
What survives
The record has an exact point, but its short type is not treated as a current survey of surviving buildings or workings.
Why it mattered
The safe importance is exact local identification of the industrial or working place; deeper economic importance needs another source.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Clydach Upper Forge Dam, Clydachmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Clydach Upper Forge Tailrace Culvertmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Clydach Upper Forge Housesmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Children's playground — Swanseaattraction0.2 miles
- Mapped cemetery — Swanseamemorial0.2 miles
- Salem Fardre Calvinistic Methodist Chapel,Lone Road, Fardre, Clydachmonument0.2 miles
- Baptist Chapel, Heol Graig-Felen, Clydach,monument0.3 miles
- Mapped graveyard — Swanseamemorial0.3 miles
- Graig-felen Plantationforest0.3 miles
- Clydach Woollen Factorymonument0.3 miles
- Clydach Upper Feeder Weir;Forge Fach Falls, Swansea Canal, Clydachmonument0.4 miles
- Carmel Independent Chapel, Heol y Nant, Clydachmonument0.4 miles
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