Skewen
Skewen 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 8,500 residents
- Description: village in Wales
- Also known as: “Sgiwen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skewen railway station and Skewen Library.
Skewen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kevin Trahar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skewen railway station serves the village of Skewen, south Wales. It is located below street level at Station Road in Skewen, 210 miles 26 chains from London Paddington.
Neath Abbey
Photo: Gareth Lovering Photography, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neath Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Neath in South Wales, UK. It was once the largest abbey in Wales. Substantial ruins can still be seen, and are in the care of Cadw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llandarcy and Coed Darcy.
Llandarcy
Village
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandarcy is a village near Neath in the Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, and was the site of the first oil refinery in the United Kingdom. It was originally designed as a garden village to house the workers for the BP refinery built between 1918 and 1922.
Coed Darcy
Village
Coed Darcy is a new village currently being developed adjacent to Llandarcy in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
Briton Ferry
Town
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Briton Ferry is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The Welsh name may indicate that the church, llan, is protected from the wind, awel. Briton Ferry is situated 2 miles southeast of Skewen.
Skewen
- Category: locality
- Location: Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.65706° or 51° 39′ 25″ northLongitude
-3.84691° or 3° 50′ 49″ westPopulation
8,500Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SKWOpen location code
9C3RM543+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1179006914OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Skewen” goes by many names.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skewen”. Photo: Alan Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.