Visit Skewen Places

Welcome to Visit Skewen Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Skewen

  

Skewen Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Skewen

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Skewen history

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Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village (see link below). 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 country’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.

You can visit Skewen places with Walkfo Skewen to hear history at Skewen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Skewen has 46 places to visit in our interactive Skewen 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 Skewen, 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 Skewen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Skewen & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 46 audio facts unique to Skewen places in an interactive Skewen map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Skewen Places Map
46 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Skewen places to visit

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

Neath Abbey television relay station The Neath Abbey television relay station is sited on a hill north of the town of Neath. It was originally built in the 1980s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue television serving the parts of the town of Neath to its east with its vertically polarised signal, and the parts of the town to its northwest with its horizontally polarised signal. This is an unusual layout, chosen to avoid signal degradation from reflections off the cliffs to the north. The site consists of a 12 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on land which is itself about 80 m above sea level. The Neath Abbey transmission station is owned and operated by Arqiva. Neath Abbey transmitter re-radiates the signal received off-air from Kilvey Hill about 10 km to the southwest. When it came, the digital switchover process for Neath Abbey duplicated the timing at the parent station, with the first stage taking place on Wednesday 12 August 2009 and the second stage was completed on Wednesday 9 September 2009, with the Kilvey Hill transmitter-group becoming the first in Wales to complete digital switchover. After the switchover process, analogue channels had ceased broadcasting permanently and the Freeview digital TV services were radiated at an ERP of 10 W each.

Skewen Dram Road The Skewen Dram Road was a 3 miles (5 km) long mining railway near Skewen in Wales with a gauge of 2 feet 7+1/2 inches (800 mm).

West End F.C. West End Football Club is a football team, based in the Mayhill area of Swansea, Wales, Ardal Leagues South West, the third tier of the Welsh football pyramid.

Cadoxton-juxta-Neath Cadoxton is a village situated in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The village has 1,684 residents and is located in the Cadoxion ward. Cadoxon elected a Liberal Democrat representative in 2008 council elections.

Gnoll Country Park Gnoll Country Park is an early-18th-century landscaped garden covering over 100 acres (0.40 km) in the Vale of Neath, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in south Wales.

Visit Skewen plaques