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Neath Port Talbot

Neath

Neath is a town in in . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 50,700 residents
  • Description: town and community in county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales
  • Also known as: “Neath, Wales”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neath Castle and Neath railway station.

Castle
Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY 3.0.
is a Norman castle located in the town centre of Neath, . Its construction was begun by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the nominal Lord of Glamorgan, at a date estimated between 1114 and 1130.

Railway station
Photo: Alan Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a main line railway station serving the town of Neath, south Wales. Managed by Transport for Wales, the station is located at street level on Windsor Road, situated back from the street fronting a small car park.

Photo: Gareth Lovering Photography, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Neath in , . It was once the largest abbey in . Substantial ruins can still be seen, and are in the care of Cadw.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Briton Ferry and Skewen.

Town
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town and community in the county borough of , . The Welsh name may indicate that the church, llan, is protected from the wind, awel.

Village
Photo: Alan Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village within the county borough of , in Wales. The village is served by and has its own rugby club.

Village
is the name of a village and community in , Wales, located to the north-east of Neath. Immediately between 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.

Neath

Latitude
51.6628° or 51° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
-3.8039° or 3° 48′ 14″ west
Population
50,700
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NEA
Open location code
9C3RM57W+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 89026129
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641843
Wiki­data ID
Q2003342
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Neath” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيث”
  • Asturian: “Castell-nedd”
  • Basque: “Neath”
  • Belarusian: “Ніт”
  • Bengali: “নিথ”
  • Breton: “Castell-nedd”
  • Bulgarian: “Нийт”
  • Catalan: “Neath”
  • Cebuano: “Neath”
  • Chinese: “Neath”
  • Chinese: “尼夫”
  • Chinese: “尼思”
  • Chinese: “尼斯”
  • Cornish: “Castell-nedd”
  • Czech: “Neath”
  • Danish: “Neath”
  • Dutch: “Neath”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيث”
  • French: “Neath”
  • German: “Neath”
  • Gujarati: “નીથ”
  • Hebrew: “נית‘”
  • Indonesian: “Castell-nedd”
  • Indonesian: “Neath”
  • Irish: “Castell-nedd”
  • Italian: “Neath”
  • Japanese: “ニース”
  • Kannada: “ನೀತ್”
  • Korean: “니스”
  • Latin: “Nidum”
  • Latin: “Nidus”
  • Latvian: “Nīta”
  • Lithuanian: “Nitas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Neath”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neath”
  • Northern Sami: “Castell-nedd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castell-Nedd”
  • Norwegian: “Neath”
  • Persian: “نیث، ولز”
  • Persian: “نیث”
  • Polish: “Neath”
  • Russian: “Нит”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Castell-nedd”
  • Slovak: “Neath”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیث، ولز”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیث”
  • Spanish: “Neath (Gales)”
  • Spanish: “Neath”
  • Swedish: “Neath”
  • Tamil: “நீஇத்”
  • Tatar: “Нит (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Нит”
  • Telugu: “నీత్”
  • Thai: “นีท”
  • Ukrainian: “НІт”
  • Urdu: “نیتھ”
  • Welsh: “Castell Nedd”
  • Welsh: “Castell-nedd”
  • Welsh: “Castellnedd”
  • “Castell-nedd”
  • “Neath”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Neath”. Photo: Robert Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.