Abandoned UK village once home to 600 people where rooms are still furnished

Abandoned UK village once home to 600 people where rooms are still furnished This village was once thriving but was abandoned as recently as 1985 — eerie pictures show rooms still full of furniture and personal items. Not that long ago, this village was a modest yet lively place to live, with roughly 600 residents making their homes on the steep valley hillside. It boasted around 100 terraced houses and also featured a school, church, shops and pubs. Its roots stretched back to the 1850s when it was established to accommodate workers at the nearby mines. However, serious concerns emerged that it faced the same dreadful fate as Aberfan, where a catastrophic landslip caused one of the most devastating disasters in British history. At the village of Troedrhiwfuwch in the Rhymney Valley of south Wales, the alarm centred on the geology of the surrounding landscape and fears that the mountain looming behind the village was shifting. As a result, residents were relocated in 1985, reports Wales Online. Some may assume that Troedrhiwfuwch was entirely erased from existence, with only the war memorial remaining as a public tribute to the vanished community. Yet a stroll along the winding main road that snakes up through the valley tells a rather different story. Two properties from the long-lost village have survived and continued to serve as much-loved homes — the former post office on the main road and a cottage tucked behind overgrown foliage on Chapel Street, one of three residential streets within the vanished settlement. This solitary hillside home, located in a former mining community condemned due to a "moving mountain", offers a haunting glimpse into the past for a prospective new owner. The isolated dwelling, which carries the memory of this once-thriving and cherished village — famed for its tight-knit community where everyone knew one another and families lived side by side for generations — is now heading to auction. Sean Roper, of Paul Fosh Auctions, said: "It's a vastly overused word but this a truly unique sale for all manner of reasons the main one being that the house offers a real-life connection to a now vanished community where a population of more than 600 men, women and children and their pets, once thrived. "The lone house on the hill, number 2, Lawrence Terrace, in the demolished village near New Tredegar, is a curious link to another age. Why this otherwise ordinary three-bedroom house survived while all the others didn't, remains a bit of a mystery but it may be a story a new owner of the property may wish to unravel. "Whatever the circumstances this sale offers an unrepeatable opportunity for someone to acquire a property with a wonderfully amazing history. Now this house that was once in the centre of the village is the only remaining property, other than the former post office and the poignant war memorial, with a vital link to those far off days and times. "The property, surrounded by wonderful country and steep mountainside vistas, has stunning views to the front and rear. It would appear to present an ideal opportunity for either an investor or homeowner." The property boasts two reception rooms, a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor, three bedrooms upstairs, a rear yard with outbuildings and a front garden. The auction house handling the sale of this lone hillside survivor confirms it also benefits from gas central heating (not tested) and is partly uPVC double glazed. Outside, there is a rear yard with sheds, a front garden, and breath-taking valley and mountain views. The property is being sold with vacant possession, but once modernised, the agent believes it could command rental income of up to £900 per calendar month. It is being offered via online auction through Paul Fosh Auctions with a guide price of £35,000, with bidding opening at noon on Tuesday, June 23 and closing at 2.36pm on Thursday, June 25. For further details, including securing a spot on the viewing days of Wednesday June 10 and Wednesday June 17, contact the auction house on 01633 254044. For more property, renovation, and interior design stories join our Amazing Welsh Homes Facebook group here.