Briton Ferry
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 35,200 residents
- Description: town and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales
- Also known as: “Llansawel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Briton Ferry railway station and Briton Ferry Library.
Briton Ferry railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Briton Ferry railway station is a minor station in the village of Briton Ferry, south Wales. It is 206 miles 40 chains from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baglan and Llandarcy.
Baglan
Village
Photo: Chris Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baglan is a village in Wales, adjoining Port Talbot, named after Saint Baglan. It is also a community and ward in the Neath Port Talbot county borough.
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. Llandarcy is situated 1½ miles west of Briton Ferry.
Cimla
Suburb
Cimla is a village and suburb of the town of Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is set high up on a hill. It is pronounced Kim-la. Cimla is situated 1½ miles northeast of Briton Ferry.
Briton Ferry
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.63604° or 51° 38′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.82167° or 3° 49′ 18″ westPopulation
35,200Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BFYOpen location code
9C3RJ5PH+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 277066448OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Briton Ferry” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Llansawel”
- Basque: “Briton Ferry”
- Basque: “Llansawel”
- Bengali: “ব্রাইটন ফের্যি”
- Breton: “Llansawel”
- Bulgarian: “Бритън Фери”
- Catalan: “Llansawel”
- Cebuano: “Briton Ferry”
- Chinese: “Briton Ferry”
- Chinese: “不列登渡口”
- Chinese: “布里頓費裏”
- Chinese: “布里頓費里”
- Chinese: “布里顿费里”
- Cornish: “Llansawel”
- Dutch: “Briton Ferry”
- Esperanto: “Llansawel”
- French: “Briton Ferry”
- French: “Llansawel”
- German: “Briton Ferry”
- Gujarati: “બ્રિટન ફેરી”
- Irish: “Llansawel”
- Italian: “Briton Ferry”
- Japanese: “ブリトン・フェリー”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಟನ್ ಫೆರ್ರಿ”
- Korean: “브리튼 페리”
- Lithuanian: “Briton Feris”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Briton Ferry”
- Moksha: “Бритон-Фэрри”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Briton Ferry”
- Persian: “برایتون فری”
- Persian: “بریتون فری”
- Polish: “Briton Ferry”
- Portuguese: “Briton Ferry”
- Russian: “Бритон-Ферри”
- Scots: “Llansawel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Llansawel, Castell-nedd Port Talbot”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Llansawel”
- Spanish: “Briton Ferry”
- Swedish: “Briton Ferry”
- Tamil: “பிரிட்டன் பெர்ரி”
- Telugu: “బ్రిటన్ ఫెర్రి”
- Ukrainian: “Брітон-Феррі”
- Urdu: “بریٹن فیری”
- Welsh: “Llansawel, Castell-nedd Port Talbot”
- Welsh: “Llansawel”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Briton Ferry Town Council: Liberty Hall and Brynhyfryd House.
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