Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
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.Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum at former copper mine
- Also known as: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mynydd Marchywel and Aberdulais Falls.
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 2½ miles south of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
Tonna Hospital
Hospital
Tonna Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Tonna, Neath, Wales. It is managed by Swansea Bay University Health Board. Tonna Hospital is situated 2½ miles south of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crynant and Clyne.
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.
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. Clyne is situated 2 miles southeast of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
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 east of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
- Categories: copper mine, mining museum, independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71368° or 51° 42′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.76031° or 3° 45′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C3RP67Q+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 1161358862OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5057254
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cefn Coed Colliery Museum” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Basque: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- Catalan: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Catalan: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- French: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- French: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- Irish: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Irish: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- Swedish: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Swedish: “Cefn Coed Colliery Museum”
- Welsh: “Amgueddfa Glofa Cefn Coed”
- Welsh: “Glofa Cefn Coed”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Margaret’s Church and Crynant Post Office.
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