Cwmafan (Welsh pronunciation), also known as Cwmavon, is a large village and community in the Afan valley in Wales, lying within Neath Port Talbot County...
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and Tata Steel. Afan United (reserves) Cornelly United Croeserw Athletic Cwmafan FC Porthcawl Glyncorrwg Gwynfi United Port Talbot Town (reserves) Porthcawl...
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borough of Port Talbot was created in November 1921, incorporating Margam, Cwmafan and Aberafan. It was therefore 85 years after the phrase 'Port Talbot'...
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valley is traversed by the A4107 road. Settlements in the area include Cwmafan, Pontrhydyfen and Cymmer. The town of Aberavon, whose name in Welsh Aberafan...
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for the Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship. He began his career at Cwmafan RFC, he also played for Swansea Valley U15 team in the Dewar Shield. He...
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smaller Afon Pelenna, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the larger village of Cwmafan and not far from the towns of Port Talbot and Neath. The views from the...
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as a regular evening and daytime presenter on BBC Radio Wales. Born in Cwmafan near Port Talbot, he was educated at local schools. During his teenage...
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[citation needed] Between 1859 and 1904, there were local revivals in Cwmafan (1866), Rhondda (1879), Carmarthen and Blaenau Ffestiniog (1887), Dowlais...
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biographical works and especially his collections on Welsh place names. Born in Cwmafan on 9 March 1850, Morgan was the nephew of the deacon and bard David Michael...
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Pyle, near Bridgend A4063 near Aberkenfig via Cefn Cribwr B4282 A4017 at Cwmafan A4063 at Cwmfelin via Maesteg. A previous B4282 forms part of the current...
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Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes Statue Forest trail overlooking Cwmafan 2010 Steel statues with sound Steel Depicts local actors Rob Brydon and...
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grandfather, Henry Eastaway Thomas, had been born in Neath, worked in Cwmafan and moved to Tredegar in the 1850s. He was the brother of Treharne Thomas...
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Tylorstown RFC Abercrave RFC Aberavon Green Stars RFC Baglan RFC Bryncoch RFC Cwmafan RFC Cwmgors RFC Cwmllynfell RFC Nantymoel RFC Swansea Uplands RFC Taibach...
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south. Alltwen transmitter re-radiated a signal received off-air from Cwmafan about 2 km farther to the northeast, itself a relay of Wenvoe. It was possibly...
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It has a population of 913. The village is located in the hills between Cwmafan, in the Afan Valley, and Maesteg in the Llynfi Valley, approximately 6...
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Cwmbach, near Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, but later moved with his family to Cwmafan and attended grammar school in Port Talbot. He was educated at University...
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into being in 1861, though at the time it was still smaller than nearby Cwmafan or Taibach. Although there were small local collieries the area had become...
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Salem (Canton, Cardiff), Hermon (Cilffriw), Horeb (Crai), Tabernacl (Cwmafan), Yorath (Cwmgiedd), Bethania (Cwmtwrch), Libanus (Glanrhyd), Libanus (Hendy)...
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Cwmavon Glam railway station served the village of Cwmafan, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1885 to 1964 on the Rhondda and Swansea...
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Brecon Chepstow Clydach Clyro Crickhowell Crucorney Crumlin Cym Ffrwd-Oer Cwmafan Cwmaman Cwmfelinfach Deri Dowlais Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale South Ferndale Fernhill...
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Freedom, Emblem of Unity, and Shield of Liberty. Richards was born in Cwmafan, Wales, but spent most of his childhood in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States...
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Neath Port Talbot, Powys SA12 PORT TALBOT Aberafan, Aberavon, Baglan, Cwmafan, Port Talbot town centre, Sandfields, Neath Port Talbot SA13 PORT TALBOT...
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forward), during the era of contested scrums. Rees Richards was born in Cwmafan, Wales. Richards won caps for Wales (RU) while at Aberavon RFC in 1913...
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735 Llay 4,665 Loughor 4,630 Ynysybwl 4,580 Blaina 4,555 Nantyglo 4,545 Cwmafan (Cwmavon) 4,525 Hope (Flintshire) 4,420 Aberbargoed 4,415 Ferndale 4,300...
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season they comfortably beat a number of the league favourites, including Cwmafan FC, along with local rivals Glyncorrwg FC and Gwynfi United. By Christmas...
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Evans Catholic Primary School, Llanedyrn, Cardiff St Philip Evans Church, Cwmafan, Neath Port Talbot (Roman Catholic) St John Lloyd Church, Rumney, Cardiff...
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Park Row, Cwmafan, 21 March 1860, second son of John Morgan, J. Vyrnwy Morgan was admitted as a member of Seion Congregational Church, Cwmafan, at the age...
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development. In 1840, an area of about 750 acres (3.0 km2) of land in Cwmafan was leased for 99 years to John Vigurs and subsequently passed to Wright...
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the valley of the Nant Ffrwdwyllt, between the communities of Taibach, Cwmafan, Bryn and Margam. The former St Peter's Church (Church in Wales) was a...
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priest in 1973. After curacies at Bargoed and Coity he held incumbencies in Cwmafan, Llangynwyd, Cardiff and Swansea. .He was the Archdeacon of Carmarthen...
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