Briton Ferry: Industrial Village at the Mouth of the Neath Valley
Briton Ferry (Llansawel in Welsh) sits where the River Neath meets Swansea Bay, within the Neath Port Talbot county borough. The population is around 7,500. The town grew around its docks, built in the mid-nineteenth century to export coal and tinplate from the Neath Valley. The docks closed in the 1950s, and the dock area has been partly reclaimed. The A48 and the M4 pass through or near the town, and the railway station provides services on the South Wales Main Line to Swansea and Cardiff.
Brunel's original timber viaduct carried the South Wales Railway across the Neath here in the 1850s. The Giant's Grave, a wooded headland overlooking the river, is an ancient scheduled monument. Baglan Bay, immediately to the south, hosts an energy park on former BP refinery land. Neath town centre is about two miles to the north-east. The area has a working, industrial feel rather than a tourist one. For adult companionship in Wales, the legal position follows England and Wales criminal law.
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Briton Ferry (Llansawel in Welsh) sits where the River Neath meets Swansea Bay, within the Neath Port Talbot county borough. The population is around 7,500. The town grew around its docks, built in the mid-nineteenth century to export coal and tinplate from the Neath Valley. The docks closed in the 1950s, and the dock area has been partly reclaimed. The A48 and the M4 pass through or near the town, and the railway station provides services on the South Wales Main Line to Swansea and Cardiff.
Brunel's original timber viaduct carried the South Wales Railway across the Neath here in the 1850s. The Giant's Grave, a wooded headland overlooking the river, is an ancient scheduled monument. Baglan Bay, immediately to the south, hosts an energy park on former BP refinery land. Neath town centre is about two miles to the north-east. The area has a working, industrial feel rather than a tourist one. For adult companionship in Wales, the legal position follows England and Wales criminal law.
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