This series of caches are located at Pontymoile canal basin.
Pontypool Union workhouse was built in 1837 on Coed-y-gric Road, Griffithstown, Monmouthshire (now Gwent). It later became Panteg County Hospital. People went into workhouses, particularly in 19th Century Britain, as a last resort when they were too poor, sick or unemployed to support themselves. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, these institutions provided basic food and shelter in exchange for, often brutal, manual labour, serving as a deterrent against relying on public assistance. The Mon & Brec Canal runs alongside Panteg Hospital and in by-gone days when the buildings were used as a workhouse, coal would be delivered there directly from barges on the canal.