Clyne
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Location within Neath Port Talbot | |
OS grid reference | SN803009 |
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Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEATH |
Postcode district | SA11 |
Police | South Wales |
Fire | Mid and West Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
Clyne is a village in the Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, and is the main settlement in the community of Clyne and Melincourt which with the community of Resolven make up the electoral ward of Resolven. The population at the 2011 census was 819. [1] The community includes a large rural area and the River Neath and Neath Canal form the western boundary.
Aberdulais is a village and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, lying on the River Neath, in the community of Blaenhonddan. The village grew around the Aberdulais Falls, the site of successive industries and now a hydro-electric station. The National Trust owns and administers the site.
Abergarwed is a village in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, south Wales.
Resolven is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is located in the Vale of Neath.
Tonna is the name of a village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, located to the north-east of Neath.
Cymmer is a small village in the community of Cymer and Glyncorrwg, in Neath Port Talbot in Wales, set on a hillside in the Afan Valley near the confluence of the River Afan and the River Corrwg. In 2001, Cymmer had a population of 2,883.
Blaengwrach is a community near Glynneath and Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is also the name of an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, which is a larger area than the Community. The principal settlement is Cwmgwrach, a village on the south side of the Neath valley, of which the eastern end is called Blaengwrach, which sometimes causes confusion.
Glyncorrwg is a village in the Afan Valley, in southern Wales.
The Welsh Rugby Union Division Four South West is a rugby union league in Wales first implemented for the 1995/96 season.
Melincourt Falls is an 80 feet (24 m) high waterfall on Melin Court Brook, a left-bank tributary of the River Neath / Afon Nedd, located 1-mile (1.6 km) south of Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, south Wales. It is formed where the brook plunges over a resistant band of 'Lower Pennant Sandstone' in a 13 acres (5.3 ha) nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. The falls have been drawing visitors for at least two centuries – they are certainly known to have inspired J. M. W. Turner to paint them in 1794. The falls are considered by some to constitute a part of Waterfall Country though the bulk of these falls are a few miles further northeast at the head of the Vale of Neath.
The Vale of Neath, one of the South Wales Valleys, encompasses the upper reaches of the River Neath in southwest Wales. In addition to the River Neath, it is traversed by the Neath Canal and the A465 dual carriageway.
Resolven is and electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Resolven is made up of the parishes of Resolven and Clyne and Melincourt.
Glynneath is the name of an electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
Aberpergwm is the site of a colliery in the Vale of Neath near Glynneath in south Wales.
Waterfall Country is a name often given to the upper reaches of the Vale of Neath in South Wales. The tourist area around the head of the valley has an unusually large number of publicly accessible waterfalls. The area is not officially defined but generally includes the group of falls on the Nedd Fechan, Pyrddin, Hepste and Mellte rivers, all of which lie between the villages of Pontneddfechan and Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Melincourt could refer to:
The Neath & District League is a football league in South Wales. The league consists of four divisions, named The Premier Division, Division One, Two and Three. The Premier Division is a feeder to the West Wales Premier League, and therefore sits at level 5 of the Welsh football league system.
Saint Illtyd's Walk is a 64-mile-long (103 km) waymarked long-distance footpath in South Wales. It runs from Pembrey Country Park, west of Burry Port, through rural eastern Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot to end at Margam Country Park, south of Port Talbot.
Resolven railway station served the village of Resolven, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, from 1851 to 1964 on the Vale of Neath Railway.