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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Aberavon

  

Aberavon Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Aberavon

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Aberavon history

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Little is known about Aberafan before Norman times. Bronze Age remains have been found in the hills behind the town. Caradog ab Iestyn was the only Welsh lord to retain lands in Glamorgan – the area between the Afan and Neath rivers.

You can visit Aberavon places with Walkfo Aberavon to hear history at Aberavon’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Aberavon has 40 places to visit in our interactive Aberavon map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Aberavon, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Aberavon places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Aberavon & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Aberavon Places Map
40 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Aberavon historic spots	Aberavon tourist destinations	Aberavon plaques	Aberavon geographic features
Walkfo Aberavon tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Aberavon

  

Best Aberavon places to visit

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Aberavon has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Aberavon’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Aberavon’s information audio spots:

Baked Bean Museum of Excellence The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is a private museum located in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom. The museum is located in the Welsh town of Port Talbot.

Neath Port Talbot Hospital Neath Port Talbot Hospital is a general hospital in Wales. It is managed by Swansea Bay University Health Board. The hospital is located in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

St Catharine’s Church, Baglan St Catharine’s Church is the mother church of the parish of Baglan in Port Talbot, South Wales. It was built between 1875 and 1882 at the expense of Griffith Llewellyn, owner of nearby Baglan Hall. The church was constructed in the Decorated Gothic style and dressed with Forest of Dean sandstone. It replaced the older St Baglan’s Church, a pre-Norman building that was largely destroyed by a fire in 1954.

Talbot Athletic Ground The Talbot Athletic Ground is a sports stadium located in central Port Talbot, Wales, with a maximum capacity of 3,000. The ground is home to Welsh rugby union team Aberavon RFC, and the Wales women’s national team.

River Neath River Neath (Welsh: Afon Nedd) is a river in south Wales running south west from the point at which its headwaters arising in the Brecon Beacons National Park converge to its mouth at Baglan Bay below Briton Ferry on the east side of Swansea Bay.

Mynydd Emroch television relay station The Mynydd Emroch television relay station is sited on the eponymous hill to the east of Port Talbot. It was originally built in the 1970s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue television. It consists of a 25 metres (82 ft) self-supporting lattice tower standing on a hillside which is itself 600 ft (183 metres) above sea level.

Port Talbot War Memorial The memorial commemorates local men killed in the First World War and Second World War. It was sculpted by Louis Frederick Roslyn and opened to the public in 1926. The memorial has been Grade II* listed since 2000.

Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot was built in 1827 as a chapel of ease to Margam Abbey. It was originally donated by C. R. M. Talbot, MP, as a church for local people who could not get to the abbey to worship. The parents of Anthony Hopkins were married at the church in 1936.

Craig Ty-Isaf Craig Ty-Isaf is a small hillfort in Baglan community, Neath Port Talbot, in South Wales. It is one of three hillforts on the area of hillside known as Mynydd y Gaer, and is within Briton Ferry Woods.

Port Talbot Port Talbot is situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately eight miles (thirteen kilometres) from Swansea. It is one of the biggest steelworks in the world but has been under threat of closure since the 1980s. The population was 37,276 in 2011.

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