Skewen

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Skewen
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A view over Skewen
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Skewen
Location within Neath Port Talbot
Population8,500 
OS grid reference SS727974
Principal area
Preserved county
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEATH
Postcode district SA10
Dialling code 01792
Police South Wales
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
UK Parliament
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UK
Wales
Neath Port Talbot
51°39′39″N3°50′24″W / 51.6609°N 3.8399°W / 51.6609; -3.8399

Skewen (Welsh : Sgiwen) is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station and has its own rugby club.

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History

Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village. The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath Abbey Ironworks were once important industrial sites which stood close by. Old top-loading blast furnaces can also be seen at Neath Abbey. To the south of Skewen lies the village of Llandarcy, the site of the United Kingdom's first oil refinery. The site of this former oil refinery is now being developed as an urban village called Coed Darcy, a development which was promoted at its start by the Prince of Wales's Foundation for the Built Environment.[ citation needed ]

Monuments of interest

The ruins of Neath Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, are now in the care of Cadw. [1] On Mynydd Drumau to the north of the village is an ancient standing stone known as the Carreg Bica (or 'Maen Bradwen'). [2]

Notable people

Nearest places

References

  1. Neath Abbey (ID PRN00585w) in the ' SMR ' for Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (GGAT)
  2. https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6201/maen-bredwan
  3. "This is why Eddie Izzard hates it when the Welsh get a hard time from 'casual racist banter' – Wales Online".