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.
Maps
Online maps of Pontardawe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: