Port Talbot ( or ) is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

He was born in Keyford, which is now part of Frome, Somerset in 1840, educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and, at the age of 16, became an apprentice at Messrs Price and Fox at the Neath Abbey Iron Works.

Its most well-known summer population is in the New Forest ( Hampshire ) but it is also found in the Tyne Valley ( Northumberland ), Wareham Forest ( Dorset ), Swanton Novers Great Wood ( Norfolk ), the Neath Valleys ( South Wales ), the Clumber Park area ( Nottinghamshire ), near Wykeham Forest ( North Yorkshire ), Haldon Forest Park ( Devon ) and elsewhere.

The original bridge over River Neath ( the A48 ), is to the right, the new M4 bridge is to the left

Peter Gerald Hain ( born 16 February 1950 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Neath since 1991, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Gwenda Thomas AM ( born in Neath, 22 January 1942 ) is the Labour Assembly Member for Neath.

Access to Neath is via the First Cymru 907 services to / from Coelbren ; while the 158 / X58 services run to Swansea's Quadrant Bus Station to / from Banwen.

Neath () is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK with a population of approximately 45, 898 in 2001.

Neath is the Anglicised form.

St Illtyd visited the Neath area and established a settlement in what is now known as Llantwit on the northern edge of the town.

The Welsh language name for Neath is Castell-nedd, referring to the Norman Neath Castle, which was visited by English Kings Henry II, John Lackland and Edward I.

The River Neath is a navigable estuary and Neath was a river port until recent times.

Neath is also home to the Trade Centre Wales-a car supermarket.

is the town's largest football team, playing at Neath RFC's ground, the Gnoll and play in the top-flight of Welsh football, the Welsh Premier League.

Neath and the surrounding area is represented at Westminster by Peter Hain MP ( Labour ) and in the National Assembly for Wales by Gwenda Thomas AM ( Labour ).

Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School is situated in the outskirts of the town as is a campus of Neath Port Talbot College ( which was previously Neath College ).

She later served in the same position on Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council following local government reorganisation in 1995.

The community of Pontardawe, comprising the electoral wards of Pontardawe and Trebanos, is served by an elected Town Council and forms part of the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.

Prior to local government reorganisation in 1974, Pontardawe and district was served by Pontardawe Rural District Council, but this merged in 1974 to become part of Lliw Valley DC ; which was subsequently reorganised again when the Pontardawe area became a part of the present Neath Port Talbot county borough.

The village was originally served by Hirwaun railway station on the Vale of Neath Railway, which arrived in 1851.

Financial difficulties encountered by several Welsh clubs, most notably by neighbours and great rivals Neath who went bust on at least two occasion ( only to be " bailed out " by the WRU and a team of local businessmen ), served only to reinforce this cautious approach until the realization that in such circumstances club committee members may find themselves liable for uncleared debts.

A world record crowd of 56, 000 for a rugby union club match watched Llanelli RFC beat Neath RFC by 28 points to 13 points in the final of the Schweppes Cup ( WRU Challenge Cup ) on 7 May 1988.

Some of his men had been taken prisoner by the garrison of Montgomery and beheaded, and Llywelyn responded by burning Montgomery, Powys, New Radnor, Hay and Brecon before turning west to capture the castles of Neath and Kidwelly.

History of New Zealand Scows: ' Neath Swaying Spars ' by P. A.

She was re-elected as Welsh Labour's Assembly Member for Neath on 3 May 2007 for a third 4 year term in office, with a majority reduced from 4, 946 to 1, 944-despite the actual number of votes for Labour only reducing by 398 votes from the 2003 Assembly election.

Development of many mines, and hence small settlements into villages and towns in the area, was brought about by a combination of a rich deposits of anthracite in the western South Wales coalfield, as well as the construction of the Neath and Brecon Railway from 1862.

* Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823, b. Monmouthshire ), evolutionary theorist, lived in Neath during 1841 / 2 and attended lectures given by the area's scientific societies ;

The new transmitter for the Neath area was commissioned by Government regulator Ofcom on Thursday 23 October 2008.

West Glamorgan was created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 from the county borough of Swansea, the municipal boroughs of Neath and Port Talbot, the urban districts of Glyncorrwg and Llwchwr, Gower Rural District, Pontardawe Rural District, and all of Neath Rural District except the parish of Rhigos.

According to Neath MP Peter Hain “ Rhodri was the party ’ s favourite and feelings ran very high " but nevertheless, in a volte-face, Hain agreed to run the campaign for Michael who he described as " the establishment candidate .” Although Morgan had the overwhelming support of Labour Party members, Alun Michael, backed by Blair and by the trade unions, duly won.

The river crossing was by ferry boat some from the bridge across the River Neath at Neath.

The Industrial Revolution brought factories such as the Albion Steel Works, the English Crown Spelter Works and the Baglan Bay Tinplate Works were built on land close to the River Neath and the new South Wales Railway, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

He supervised the construction of the Neath Canal from Neath to Ynysbwllog, where the canal was to cross the River Neath by an aqueduct ; but in 1792 he resigned before the project was completed, in order to become engineer for the Monmouthshire Canal.

* Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales

Neath Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Neath in South Wales, UK.

* "' Neath The South Sea Moon " w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper

The town encompasses the electoral wards of Neath East, Neath North and Neath South.

Qualiton Records was a small record label which produced shellac and vinyl records in the 1950s to at least 1961 near Neath, South Wales.

He was sent in pursuit and captured the king at Neath in South Wales.

Crossing the Wales-England border at Chepstow and continuing west close to the South Wales coast, it connects Newport, Cardiff, Cowbridge, Bridgend, Pyle, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea before terminating at the junction with the A40 near the centre of Carmarthen.

The Welsh Football League Division Three is above the Level 5 leagues: Carmarthenshire League, Gwent County League, Neath & District League, Pembrokeshire League, South Wales Amateur League, South Wales Senior League and the Swansea Senior League.

He contested four seats at once: Norwich South ( against future Home Secretary Charles Clarke ), Norwich North, Neath and Southampton Test ; he picked up around 1 % of the vote.

Briton Ferry is on the mouth of the River Neath where it enters Swansea Bay and was the first river crossing along the Roman road that followed the coastline along that part of South Wales.

The industrial development and industrialisation attracted other railways, including the Neath and Brecon Railway, the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, and the South Wales Mineral Railway with its cable powered incline.

Despite the intense industrialisation of the coal mining valleys, many parts of the landscape of South Wales such as the upper Neath valley, the Vale of Glamorgan and the valleys of the River Usk and River Wye remain distinctly beautiful and unspoilt and have been designated SSSI, Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

The Wave is an independent local radio station serving the Swansea, Llanelli, Neath and Port Talbot areas of South Wales.

The station's official Ofcom transmitted service area ( TSA ) covers Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and Llanelli, although The Wave can also be received further east in places such as Bridgend and the South Wales Valleys ( particularly on DAB ).

* Mike Smith ( tenor saxophone ) — born Michael Joseph Smith, 4 November 1947, Neath, South Wales.

One theory put forward is that the president, John Llewellyn and secretary, Sam Clark of the South Wales Football Union were both Neath men.