Gwaun-cae-gurwen, Ruins of Old Factory & Dam

(postcard by D Jenkins & Sons)
Contributed by David Smith, Feb 2003

Is this the old woollen factory at Pwllywrach ?
This extract below from the History of Pontardawe & District by John Henry Davies;
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangiwg/Pontardawe/PONTDIST

"The Gwrach (river) leads us back to the period when superstition was rampant and witches were supposed to haunt the villages with their curses.There is a pool called Pwll y wrach......the witch's pool. From Pwll y wrach the stream leaps down steep rocks towards Garnant, the name Garnant is derived from Garw nant, or rough stream. It then loses itself in the R Amman a tributary of the Llwchwr [Lougher]which goes on to the sea"

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