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Tramroad

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Tram´road`
n.1.A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.


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The area, around 500 metres from the Scheduled Ancient Monuments Morlais Castle, Morlais Hill ring cairn and Merthyr tramroad, is also classed as a Landscape of Outstanding Historic Interest and the impact of such a development would be significant and far reaching, councillors are being told.
Wyken Main Colliery was established in 1799 with a tramroad connection to the Oxford Canal.
The Mon and Brec is a far smaller waterway, dug in the early 19th century to carry farm produce to market and coal, limestone and iron ore from the quarries to the tramroads which fed the industrial revolution in this part of the world.
 
 
 
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