Llwyn Gruffydd

Places of Interest

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.

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.

Aberdulais Falls

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Aberdulais Falls are found on the River Dulais at Aberdulais, near Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The falls are formed as the river plunges over beds of hard Lower Pennant Sandstone just before meeting the River Neath flowing down the Vale of Neath. Aberdulais Falls is situated 2 miles southwest of Llwyn Gruffydd.

Places in the Area

Clyne

Village

Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clyne is a village in the Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, and is the main settlement in the community of Clyne and Melincourt which with the community of Resolven make up the electoral ward of Resolven.

Aberdulais

Village

Photo: James Ward (English artist), Public domain.

Aberdulais is a village and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, lying on the River Neath, in the community of Blaenhonddan. The village grew around the Aberdulais Falls, the site of successive industries and now a hydro-electric station. Aberdulais is situated 2 miles southwest of Llwyn Gruffydd.

Tonna

Village

Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tonna is the name of a village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, located to the north-east of Neath. Immediately between Tonna and the adjoining parish of Llanilltud is a cottage once occupied by the Welsh-born engineer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who had arrived at his theory of evolution independently of Charles Darwin, with whom he later corresponded. Tonna is situated 2 miles south of Llwyn Gruffydd.

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