| Cutting the cost of coal | ||
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main aims of the canal was to lower the price of
coal and lime at Brecon by
making the transport costs cheaper. By 1800 the first boat load of coal had reached Brecon from the Gelli-Felen colliery and the price of coal had been reduced from 14 pence per cwt (about 6 pence for 50 kilograms) to 9 pence (about 4 pence). The following extract is from a trade directory dated 1849. |
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In 1865
the canal was bought by the Monmouthshire A recent view of the canal is shown here. More about the Brecon and Abergavenny canal...
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Railway and Canal Company, and in 1880 was taken over by the Great Western
Railway after which it gradually fell into decline.