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Machen
Machen is a large village 3 miles east of Caerphilly, south Wales, situated in the Caerphilly borough within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It neighbours Bedwas and Trethomas, and forms a council ward in conjunction with those communities. It lies on the Rhymney River. Mynydd Machen (Machen Mountain) provides a view over the village. It is possible to walk up to and along the top of the mountain, where a number of large boulders are present.
==Industrial history==
Machen was a village rooted in the iron and coal industries stretching from the 17th Century.〔(A Welsh Ironworks at the Close of the Seventeenth Century ), L J Williams, National Library of Wales journal. 1960, Summer Volume XI/3〕 Though little trace remains, the village was the site of the Machen Forge and several coal mines. A local history trail visits some of these sites.〔(Machen Forge Trail )〕 Machen Forge was an early adopter of the Osmond process for the production of wrought iron.
Machen was a station on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway and a branch to Caerphilly on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, closed to passengers in 1956.
Today a residual branch of the B&MR remains open to service the Hanson Aggregates quarry at Machen.
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