Later Life
By 1867 he owned iron works, blast furnaces, coalmines, tramways, railways and brickworks. He retired in this year, selling off all his assets over the next three years. Before 1851 he had retired to Llanfoist near Abergavenny, where he lived in Llanfoist House. A local park in Abergavenny town is named Bailey Park in his honour and Llanfoist Primary School had a house named after him.
He died in 1872, aged 83, after at least seventy years in industry. His only son, and heir, Crawshay Bailey II (born 1821), inherited.
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