Cwmgors
Cwmgors is a village in the county of Glamorgan, and administered as part of the unitary authority borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is part of the community of Gwaun-cae-Gurwen and lies within the ceremonial county of West Glamorgan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wales
- Also known as: “Cwm-gors”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abernant Colliery.
Abernant Colliery
Quarry
Photo: roger geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abernant Colliery was a coal mine in the River Amman valley at Pwllfawatkin, 4 miles north of Pontardawe and 13 miles north of Swansea, West Wales. Abernant Colliery is situated 1½ miles south of Cwmgors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garnant and Lower Brynamman.
Garnant
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garnant is a mining village in the valley of the River Amman in Carmarthenshire, Wales, north of Swansea. Like the neighbouring village of Glanamman it experienced a coal-mining boom in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the last big colliery closed in 1936 and coal has been extracted fitfully since then. Garnant is situated 2 miles northwest of Cwmgors.
Lower Brynamman
Suburb
Lower Brynamman is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough in Brynamman, Wales. Lower Brynamman is situated 2 miles north of Cwmgors.
Brynamman
Town
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brynamman is a village on the south side of the Black Mountain, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The village is split into Upper Brynamman and Lower Brynamman by the River Amman, which is also the boundary between the counties of Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot. Brynamman is situated 2½ miles north of Cwmgors.
Cwmgors
- Category: locality
- Location: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.78026° or 51° 46′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.8787° or 3° 52′ 43″ westElevation
545 feet (166 metres)Open location code
9C3RQ4JC+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 331794956OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cwmgors” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cwmgors”
- Dutch: “Cwmgors”
- French: “Cwmgors”
- Irish: “Cwm-gors”
- Welsh: “Cwm-gors”
- Welsh: “Cwmgors”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hwb y Gors and Cwmgors Community Centre.
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