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Pontneddfechan Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pontneddfechan

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Pontneddfechan history

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District industrial activities started with a 21-year lease of an area from the Marquess of Bute by the Quaker entrepreneur William Weston Young, for mining silica rock round Craig-y-Ddinas from 1822 onwards. Silica was extracted for firebricks at the Dinas Firebrick Co. in Pont Walby. In 1857, Vale of Neath Powder Co. built a “gunpowder manufactory”, having obtained a licence to erect mills over a space of two miles including the Upper and Lower Cilliepste Falls.

You can visit Pontneddfechan places with Walkfo Pontneddfechan to hear history at Pontneddfechan’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pontneddfechan has 21 places to visit in our interactive Pontneddfechan 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 Pontneddfechan, 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 Pontneddfechan places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pontneddfechan & the surrounding areas.

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21 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Pontneddfechan places to visit

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

St Cadoc’s Church, Glynneath St. Cadoc’s Church is a Church in Wales church in Glynneath, Wales. It is located in the grounds of Aberpergwm House for which it was an estate church.

Aberpergwm House Aberpergwm House is an abandoned and ruinous country house located in Glynneath, Wales. Within the grounds of the house sits the church of St. Cadoc, which is possibly of late medieval origin.

Moel Penderyn Moel Penderyn is in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, south Wales. Its summit at 371m is marked by a trig point.

River Mellte River Mellte is formed by the confluence of Afon Llia and the Afon Dringarth. It flows south through the village of Ystradfellte to Pontneddfechan where it joins the River Neath. The river derives its name from ‘mellt’ – the Welsh word for ‘lightning’

Rhigos Rhigos is a small village on the saddle of higher ground between the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley. It was part of the old Neath Rural district Council under Glamorgan until 1974. The population of the community in the 2011 census was noted as 894. For postal purposes it comes under the town of Aberdare.

Tower Colliery Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa’r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the UK. It was located near the villages of Hirwaun and Rhigos, north of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley of South Wales.

Dinas Rock Dinas Rock (Welsh: Craig y Ddinas, “Fortress Rock”) is a high promontory of Carboniferous Limestone. It rises between Afon Mellte and its left-bank tributary, the Afon Sychryd. It derives its name from the presence of Iron Age earthworks on its summit.

Foel Chwern Foel Chwern is a Bronze Age burial monument dating to the Bronze Age. It is sited on the edge of a steep scarp slope, with a wide field of view to the north. The long distance footpath Coed Morgannwg Way runs close by the cairn.

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