Gleision Colliery

Places of Interest Nearby

Mynydd Allt-y-grug

Peak

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Mynydd Allt-y-grug is a 338-metre-high hill immediately west of Ystalyfera in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales. Its twin summits are around 400m apart.

Pant-Teg Independent Chapel

Church

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Pant-Teg Independent Chapel is a church, which is situated 1 mile north of Gleision Colliery.

Mynydd Marchywel

Peak

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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 southeast of Gleision Colliery.

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Ystalyfera

Village

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Ystalyfera is a former industrial village and community in the upper Swansea Valley, on the River Tawe, about 13 miles northeast of Swansea. It is an electoral ward and a community in the unitary authority of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, comprising a resident population of just over 3,000 people, approximately 60% of whom speak Welsh. Ystalyfera is situated 2 miles north of Gleision Colliery.

Crynant

Village

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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. Crynant is situated 2½ miles east of Gleision Colliery.

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