Pontrhydyfen
Pontrhydyfen 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 north of the larger village of Cwmafan and not far from the towns of Port Talbot and Neath.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mynydd Pen-rhys and Moel y Fen.
South Wales Miners’ Museum
Museum
Photo: Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales Coalfield. It is located at Cynonville within the Afan Forest Park Visitor Centre in the Afan Forest Park, near the small village of Cymmer in Neath Port Talbot. South Wales Miners’ Museum is situated 1½ miles east of Pontrhydyfen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Efail-fach and Tonmawr.
Tonmawr
Village
Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tonmawr is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, south Wales. It is part of the community of Pelenna and is located around four miles east of Neath. The village is home to a rugby union team, a community centre, and the Bryn Bettws Lodge.
Cwmafan
Village
Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cwmafan, also known as Cwmavon, is a large village and community in the Afan valley in Wales, lying within Neath Port Talbot County Borough. It had a population of 6,538 in 2011, increasing slightly to 5,615 at the 2011 Census. Cwmafan is situated 1½ miles southwest of Pontrhydyfen.
Pontrhydyfen
- Type: Village with 830 residents
- Description: village in Neath Port Talbot, Wales
- Category: locality
- Location: Pelenna, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.63423° or 51° 38′ 3″ northLongitude
-3.74371° or 3° 44′ 37″ westPopulation
830Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)Open location code
9C3RJ7M4+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 316618948OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640118Wikidata ID
Q3072939
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Pontrhydyfen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Breton: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Chinese: “威尔士”
- Chinese: “威爾士”
- Dutch: “Pontrhydyfen”
- French: “Pont-rhyd-y-fen”
- French: “Ponthrydyfen”
- French: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Hebrew: “פונטריפיידן”
- Irish: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Macedonian: “Понтридивен”
- Russian: “Понтридифен”
- Spanish: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Swedish: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Turkish: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Welsh: “Pont-rhyd-y-fen”
- Welsh: “Pontrhydyfen”
- Western Frisian: “Ponthrydyfen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rock and Afan Forest Park.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pontrhydyfen RFC and Pontrhydyfen RFC Ground.
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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 “Pontrhydyfen”. Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.