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By Torfaen Museum Micah Lewis, seated on the right, who was head packer at Town Forge in Pontypool for over 30 years, taken in 1920. Picture: Torfaen Museum. IN THE early nineteenth century, Molly Hanbury Leigh of Pontypool House introduced some regeneration and landscaping of Pontypool Park, including the building of the Shell Grotto, Rustic Arbour, picnic features along the brook, kitchen gardens and palm houses, a new stable block (now the museum) and other features - as was the garden fashion of the day. As part of the landscapi...

1. Cross the bridge and pass the front of the Active Living Centre to enter Pontypool Park. Beyond the building turn right and follow the broad drive heading towards Pontymoile Gates for a short distance. Ignore the first left turn towards the ski slope but around 100 yards further on turn left to take a clear but unmade path rising into the woods. The path soon becomes a wide sandstone track climbing through the trees. Further up it passes through a tunnel and emerges to ascend a grassy glade. Near the top a sign post indicates a right fork to the Shell Grotto, which you can now se...