Crynant Square Substation

Crynant Square Substation is an electrical substation in Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. Crynant Square Substation is situated nearby to St Margaret’s Church, as well as near Crynant Post Office.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cefn Coed Colliery Museum and Mynydd Marchywel.

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

Museum

Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys. Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Crynant Square Substation.

Mynydd Marchywel

Peak

Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mynydd Marchywel is a 418-metre high hill in the Neath Port Talbot area in South Wales. Its summit is marked both by a cairn and a trig point. The larger part of the hill is cloaked in modern forestry through which numerous streams fall away westward to the River Tawe, eastward to the River Dulais and southward into the Clydach, the latter two being tributaries of the River Neath. Mynydd Marchywel is situated 1½ miles west of Crynant Square Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crynant and Abergarwed.

Crynant

Village

Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Crynant is a village and community in the Dulais Valley in Wales. It lies 7¾ miles north-east from the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot, situated between the mountains of Mynydd Marchywel to the west, Hirfynydd to the east and Mynydd y Drum to the north.

Abergarwed

Village

Abergarwed is a village in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, south Wales. It is located in the Vale of Neath, in the electoral ward of Resolven, near the town of Neath. Abergarwed is situated 2 miles southeast of Crynant Square Substation.