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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pontrhydyfen

  

Pontrhydyfen Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pontrhydyfen

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Pontrhydyfen history

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The industrial history of Oakwood began in the 1820s, when the first blast furnace was lighted for the Pontrhydyfen Iron Works. The four-arch aqueduct is 153 yards (140 m) long and over 75 feet (23 m) high. A watercourse some two miles long carried water from the Afan; it supplied the water which powered the giant waterwheels of the Oakwood Ironworks.

You can visit Pontrhydyfen places with Walkfo Pontrhydyfen to hear history at Pontrhydyfen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pontrhydyfen has 15 places to visit in our interactive Pontrhydyfen 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 Pontrhydyfen, 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 Pontrhydyfen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pontrhydyfen & the surrounding areas.

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15 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Pontrhydyfen tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Pontrhydyfen

  

Best Pontrhydyfen places to visit

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

Pontrhydyfen Pontrhydyfen (or Pont-rhyd-y-fen) is a small village in the Afan Valley, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales. The village sits at the confluence of the River Afan and the smaller Afon Pelenna, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the larger village of Cwmafan. The views from the village are dominated by the hills of Foel Fynyddau and Moel y Fen. The built-up area has a population of around 830.

River Afan River Afan (Welsh: Afon Afan) is a river in Wales whose valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan. The town of Aberavon grew up on the banks of the river and was later subsumed by Port Talbot.

Bryn, Neath Port Talbot Bryn (English: Hill) is a village and community in Neath Port Talbot County Borough in Wales. The name of the village now familiarly ‘Bryn’, is Bryntroedygam. The village is located in the hills between Cwmafan and Maesteg in the Llynfi Valley.

Cefn Saeson Cefn Saeson is a mixed, English-medium comprehensive school in Neath, South Wales. The school serves 11 to 16-year-olds living in Cimla, Tonna, Tonmawr, Pontrhydyfen and parts of Neath. A new school was built in 2021 on the football field of the existing school.

Efail Fach television relay station The Efail Fach television relay station was built in the 1980s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue colour television. It consists of a 15 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on a hill which is itself about 160 m above sea level. The transmissions are beamed to the east towards the Pelenna valley.

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.

Neath Port Talbot Neath Port Talbot is a principal area with county borough status in the preserved county of West Glamorgan, Wales . The population at the 2011 census was 139,812. The population in the coastal areas is mainly English-speaking .

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