Big Pit: National Coal Museum


The Big Pit: National Coal Museum offers an insight into the life of South Wales miners and their communities and is unique to Wales. The guided tours are given by ex-miners who equip you with helmet, cap-lamp and battery pack before taking you down 300 ft to the coalface to experience the blackness that the miners worked in day after day. For over 200 years this was the workplace for hundreds of men, women and children who struggled to extract the precious mineral for furnaces and fires around the world. On the surface you can see the colliery buildings, winding engine-house and pithead baths. Best UK museum 2005.

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Big Pit: National Coal Museum,
Big Pit,
Blaenafon,
Pontypool,
Torfaen
NP4 9XP

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Opening Times: Daily 09:30-17:00. Underground Tours, Feb to Nov 10:00-15:30, Dec to Jan 09:30-16:30, Dec 10:00-15:00. Closed 24 to 26 Dec, 1, 30 & 31 Jan.
Admission: Free.
Location: In the town of Blaenafon, approx 16 miles north of Newport. Signposted from junction 25A of M4.
Facilities: Guided Tours,  Full Disabled Access,  Sales Point,  Shop,  Cafe,  Refreshments,  Parking Availability