Pontardawe
Pontardawe is a Town in the county of Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot).
Pontardawe postcode: SA8 4HD
There are great places to visit near Pontardawe.
Pontardawe History
There are some historic monuments around Pontardawe:
- Cwmafan copper works flue
- Crimea Colliery & Canal Quay
- Burial Chamber Nr Carn Llechart
- Cefn Morfydd Dyke & Earthwork
- Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad Incline
- Bon y Maen Standing Stone
- Neath Castle
- Townshend's Great Leat & Waggonway
- Gwernllwynchwyth Engine House
- Neath Abbey & Gatehouse
- Scott's Pit Engine House & Traces of Ancillary Buildings
- Waun-hir post-medieval lluest farmstead
- St Margaret's Chapel
- Tramroad at Ystradgynlais
- Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-Alltwen
- Craig Ty-Isaf Camp
- Foxhole River Staithes
- Gelli-Bwch Round Cairn
- Deserted Rural Settlement North of Foel Fynyddau
- Llwyncwmstabl round cairn
- Lorfa stone circle
- Briton Ferry Dock Entrance
- Cairn on Mynydd-March-Hywel
- Mynydd y Garth Cairn
- Penlle'r Castell
- Mynydd y Gaer (Lower) Camp
- Cilybebyll Auxiliary Unit Operational Base
- Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd Drumau
- Canal Boat at Aberdulais Basin
- Cae Castell (Rhyndwyclydach Medieval Earthwork)
- Canal Aqueduct over the River Twrch, Ystalyfera
- Three Round Cairns on Mynydd Drumau
- Landore New Quay
- Standing Stones 300m W of Cefncelfi
- Buarth y Gaer, Mynydd y Gaer
- Dorwen standing stone
- Bancbryn post-medieval lluest farmstead
- Aberdulais Aqueduct
- Tinplate works at Aberdulais Falls
- Clydach Upper Forge
- Court Herbert Cross & Grave Slab
- Round Cairns 430m North West of Henrhyd
- Llandarcy Round Cairn
- Ynysmaerdy Railway Incline
- Neath Roman Site
- House Platforms West of Dyffryn Wood
- Morris Castle
- Bancbryn cairn cemetery [east]
- Hafod Copper Works Musgrave Engine and Rolls
- Bancbryn platform cairn
- Ring Cairn on Tor Clawdd
- Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway (Parsons Folly) Section on Cefn Morfudd
- Carreg Bica Standing Stone
- Carn Llechart Stone Circle
- Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm
- Neath Abbey Ironworks
- Bodyst-uchaf ring cairn
- Remains of Lock and Dry Dock at Pantyffynnon
- Earthwork on Kilvey Hill
- Foel Fynyddau Round Cairn
- Bancbryn cairn cemetery
- White Rock Copper Works
- Mynydd March Hywel Round Cairn
- Tennant Canal: Skewen Cutting and tramroad bridge
- Morfa Bridge and Quays
- Carreg Hir Standing Stone, Pen-Rhiw-Tyn
- Neath Abbey Ironworks Dam
History of Pontardawe
The Anglican church of St Peter, financed by William Parsons, was completed in 1862. The church has unusual French-style architecture, and is still today one of the main features of the town.
