Cold Mountain
Today, Easter Monday, we walked around a cold mountain, the Penallta Country Park, near Ystrad Mynach, on the site of the old Penallta Colliery, the last deep mine in the Rhymney Valley, which closed in 1992.
At its peak the colliery employed over 3,000 men in local communities and at one time held the European record for coal production. It was the heart of the local economy and the local community for over 85 years. Carved from the former coal tip, Penallta Park offers spectacular views across the countryside from the high point observatory. At the side of a natural amphitheatre is a fantastic earth sculpture of a leaping horse, apparently the UK’s largest figurative earth sculpture.
At its peak the colliery employed over 3,000 men in local communities and at one time held the European record for coal production. It was the heart of the local economy and the local community for over 85 years. Carved from the former coal tip, Penallta Park offers spectacular views across the countryside from the high point observatory. At the side of a natural amphitheatre is a fantastic earth sculpture of a leaping horse, apparently the UK’s largest figurative earth sculpture.
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