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Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
"an important site of public commemoration and memory"
TypeMemorial garden
LocationSenghenydd, Caerphilly, Wales
Coordinates51°36′42″N 3°16′51″W / 51.611735°N 3.2807925°W / 51.611735; -3.2807925
Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
Official nameWelsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
Designated12 March 2024
Reference no.PGW(Gm)78(CAE)
ListingGrade II
Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden is located in Caerphilly
Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
Location of Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden in Caerphilly

The Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of 1913, the worst mining accident in British history; the 81 lives lost in an earlier pit explosion at Senghenydd in 1901; and acts as a national memorial to all of the dead of the 152 mining disasters that have occurred in Wales. The garden was opened in 2013, the centenary of the 1913 event. In March 2024 Cadw added the garden to its Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. Its listing record describes the garden as "an important site of public commemoration and memory".

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