Cwmgors

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Cwmgors
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Cwmgors
Location within Neath Port Talbot
OS grid reference SN705105
Community
  • Gwaun-cae-Gurwen
Principal area
Preserved county
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town AMMANFORD
Postcode district SA18
Dialling code 01269
Police South Wales
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Neath Port Talbot
51°46′41″N3°52′43″W / 51.778139°N 3.878525°W / 51.778139; -3.878525

Cwmgors is a village in the county of Glamorgan, and administered as part of the unitary authority borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is part of the community of Gwaun-cae-Gurwen and lies within the ceremonial county of West Glamorgan.

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Cwmgors is represented in Parliament by David Chadwick and in the Senedd by Jeremy Miles.

Its church, Llanfair, falls within the Diocese of St Davids.The primary school closed in 2015, mainly due to low pupil numbers. At the time of closure it was a Welsh-medium school having originally been a bilingual village school. It fed Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera for fully Welsh-medium education, Ysgol Uwchradd Dyffryn Aman for Welsh- and English-medium education, and Cwmtawe Community Comprehensive School for English-medium education.

Tommy Davies

Tommy Davies was a middleweight boxer who in 1945 fought and lost to Marcel Cerdan at the Palais des Sports, Paris, France. By 1948 Cerdan was world middleweight champion after defeating Tony Zale in 1948 at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Tommy Davies worked as a coal miner at Cwmgors Colliery and Abernant Colliery, up until circa 1979.

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