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Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal, Goytre
When the wharf was opened, lime was made in the limekilns and coal and timber were traded here too. Many other goods passed by on their way to Newport. including pig iron from the famous Blaenavon Iron Works. Cattle and sheep were taken to market by canal and when a canal worker's family moved house, their furntture also went by boat. By 1850 a new industrial lime-making process made the Goytre limekilns obsolete. With the coming of the railways, the canal declined as well.Now the wharf is thriving again - this time as a place of recreation.

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