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