Pelenna
Pelenna is a community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It largely covers the valleys of the rivers Pelenna and the Blaenpelenna, to the east of the town of Neath.Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Wales Miners’ Museum and Mynydd Pen-rhys.
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.
Ivy Tower
Ruins
Photo: Evansjohnd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ivy Tower is a ruins, which is situated 2½ miles northwest of Pelenna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Afan Forest Park and Neath.
Afan Forest Park
Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Afan Forest Park is a 48-square-mile forest park in Wales. It is set in the Afan Valley in Neath Port Talbot. It is well known for its mountain biking and hiking or hillwalking trails. It is situated seven miles from Junction 40 of the M4.
Neath
Photo: Robert Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neath is a town in Glamorgan in South Wales. Although it lacks any specific tourist attractions, its location near the stunning Swansea and Neath Valleys make it a convenient, if not overly inspiring, base for touring these places.
Pontrhydyfen
Village
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Pelenna
- Type: Locality with 1,160 residents
- Description: community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales
- Category: community
- Location: Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pelenna” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pelenna”
- Bulgarian: “Пелена”
- Catalan: “Pelenna”
- Cebuano: “Pelenna”
- Chinese: “Pelenna”
- Cornish: “Pelenna”
- Dutch: “Pelenna”
- French: “Pelenna”
- Irish: “Pelenna”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pelenna”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pelenna”
- Swedish: “Pelenna”
- Welsh: “Pelenna”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mynydd Blaenafon and Afan Valley.
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