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Pontardawe, Glamorgan

Historical Description

Pontardawe, a village in Llanguick parish, the head of a poor-law union and petty sessional division, in Glamorgan, on the river Tawe, 8 miles NNE of Swansea. It has a station on the Swansea and Hereford branch of the M.R,, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Swansea. There are extensive steel, tinplate, and chemical works. The church of St Peter's was erected in 1862 as a chapel of ease to Llanguick parish church, and contains a handsome reredos added in 1894, when the chancel was laid in marble, and the sanctuary in mosaics. Another church was erected in 1886. There are Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist, and Congregational chapels. Alltycham, Brynhenlog, and Ynys-y-derw are chief residences.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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CountyNeath Port Talbot
RegionSouth Wales
CountryWales
Postal districtSA8
Post TownSwansea

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