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	SWANSEA - LoveToKnow Article on SWANSEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The east side of the river (known as St Thomass and Port Tennant) is approached from the west by a road carried over the North Dock Lock and the river by two girder drawbridges, each of which has a double line of roadway (on which tramways are laid), two footpaths and a line of railway.
		In 1851 the river was diverted eastward into a new channel (called the New Cut) and its old channel was locked and floated, thereby forming the North Dock with an area of 113/4 acres and a half-tide basin 500 yards long covering 21/2 acres.
		The trustees are conservators of the river Taw and parts of Swansea Bay, and the pilotage and lighthouse authority of the district.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SW/SWANSEA.htm (4194 words)

	River Neath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		River Neath (Welsh: Afon Nedd) is a river in south Wales running south west from its source to its confluence with Swansea Bay below Briton Ferry.
		The River Neath valley once supported many deep coal mines and coal washeries and, in the latter half of the 20th century, some large opencast coal mines.
		The main industries in the Neath valley are forestry and farming with most of the population commuting to jobs in Swansea or Port Talbot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Neath (460 words)

	Ystradfellte Waterfalls - Wales
		Along the Mellte, Hepste, and Neath rivers, near the tiny village of Ystradfellte in south-central Wales.
		The trail along the river downstream from Sgwd Clun Gwyn was closed due to extensive erosion and some severe safety issues.
		Neath River – Continuing upstream along the bank of the Neath River, we encountered four good-sized (unnamed?) waterfalls and numerous small rapids.
	www.naturalhighs.net /waterfalls/falls00/ystradfellte.htm (743 words)

	Travel and Tourist Information for Holidays and Short Breaks in Neath Port Talbot
		Neath, focal point of the Vale, is a curious town with antiquities from the Roman, Norman and medieval periods, all set in industrial surroundings that somehow make them all the more remarkable.
		The River Neath flows in from the northeast, past Aberdulais, with its impressive, industrial waterfalls, harnessed to generate hydroelectric power.
		The town of Neath (Castell-Nedd) has overcome its past as a centre of copper smelting to become a spacious, pleasantly ordinary place that is much overshadowed by near neighbour Swansea.
	www.travelguideuk.com /county.cfm?countyid=96 (446 words)

	Pelobates - Issue 51 - The Mellte Valley - Croydon Caving Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The valleys of all three headwaters of the River Neath are encompassed by the scattered Parish of Ystradfellte.
		Downstream the river is bordered by alternating flat alluvial meadows on the one side and by a steep river cliff on the other, as it winds its way towards Porth-yr-Ogof.
		On the west of the valley, notably to the north of the village centre, is a terrace of older river gravels which appears to complement the limestone river cliff that has formed on the east of the river.
	www.croydoncavingclub.org.uk /Archive/Pelobates/051/S06.htm (2738 words)

	AllRefer.com - Neath (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		48,687), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, on the Neath River.
		Neath is both a market and an industrial town.
		Metallurgy and a growing petrochemical industry are important.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Neath.html (151 words)

	River Afan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Afan is a river of South (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria) Wales, whose valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan.
		A number of (A low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow) weirs on the river, built to sustain the industrial past, had to be made passable to allow fish to ascend the river.
		This turned the whole river orange down to the confluence of the Pelena with the main river Afan at Pontrhydyfen (the birthplace of (Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)) Richard Burton).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_afan.htm (550 words)

	Neath Port Talbot Museum Service - History of Neath
		The town of Neath was destroyed by the Lords of Afan in 1184, 1230, 1259.
		Neath was still a small town clustered around its castle and church throughout the 15th and 16th centuries but huge changes were to take place in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Neath Canal which at one time was the lifeline of industry has been tuned into a linear park which offers boat trips in the summer months.
	www.npt.gov.uk /museums/history_neath.cfm (851 words)

	Llansamlet History, Industry, Coal-Mining. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In addition to the early coal developments mentioned on the Abbey estate on the west side of the Neath river, lands belonging to the lord to the west and east of the river were also being worked for coal during the 14th and 15th centuries.
		Bussy Manselll was exporting coal from the town quay of Neath in 1663 and was mining Neath Abbey lands in 1670.
		The Neath Coal Co. as it was known operated until the death of Isaac Redwood in 1873 after which the property was sold to Messrs Batter and Scott.
	www.page-net.com /swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/coalmining.html (4884 words)

	Neath Abbey Wales
		Neath Abbey is situated on the outskirts of Neath, some five miles from our holiday cottages.
		Neath Abbey was founded in 1130 by the Norman baron, Richard de Granville, on a rocky terrace overlooking the river marshlands.
		Neath was finally dissolved in 1539, with Abbot Leyshon and the seven remaining monks each receiving pensions.
	www.walescottages.com /neath_abbey.htm (1438 words)

	BRITON-FERRY - LoveToKnow Article on BRITON-FERRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name La Brittone was given by the Norman settlers of the 12th century to its ferry across the estuary of the Neath (where Archbishop Baldwin and Giraldus crossed in 1188, and which is still used), but the Welsh name of the town from at least the 16th century has been Llansawel.
		Bretagne), known as Armorica (qv.) until the influx of Celts from Britain, an ancient province and duchy of France, consisting of the north-west peninsula, and nearly corresponding to the departments of Finistre, Ctes-duNord, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and Lower Loire.
		The only river basin of any importance is that of the Vilaine, which flows through Rennes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRITON_FERRY.htm (1576 words)

	The Neath and Tennant Canals
		The Neath canal is almost 30 years older than the Tennant, being the second major canal undertaking in South Wales, the first being the Glamorganshire Canal which on 9 June 1790 was promoted by Act of Parliament.
		The Neath Canal was completed in 1795, but in May 1798 an Act of Parliament passed to extend the canal by 2 1/2 miles to near Briton Ferry.
		The main obstacles to reopening the Neath canal appear to be the culverts at Resolven, and to the North on the A465, the missing aqueduct at Ynysbwllog, also the need to rebuild many of the locks.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/The-Neath-and-Tennant-Canals.html (1211 words)

	Abbeys
		In 1129 Richard de Granville granted his fee, situated on the west bank of the river Neath, to the Norman abbey of Holy Trinity at Savigny for the foundation of a new monastery.
		The scheme attracted the attention of King Edward I and, on a visit to Neath in 1284, he presented the abbey with a beautiful canopy, intended for the High Altar.
		The monks of Neath were ‘plundered of their goods by reason of rebellion of certain Welshmen.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /abbeys/neath.php (543 words)

	River Mellte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afon Mellte or the River Mellte is a river in Wales.
		It is formed by the conjunction of the Afon Llia and the river Dringarth.
		It then flows south through the village of Ystradfellte to join the River Neath.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Mellte (65 words)

	RIVER FLOODS ACROSS WALES OF 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However in Wales, with the exception of the Rivers Wye and Severn, long records (in excess of 50 years) of annual maxima river flows are limited and, in the case of small catchments, non-existent.
		River flows in the Neath itself are estimated to have a return period of between 10 and 40 years.
		Other flooding on main river occurred at Presteigne and Kington where 15 properties were flooded from the river Lugg and a further 24 at Pembridge, Kington and Eardisland when the Arrow overtopped the natural channel.
	www.cig.ensmp.fr /~hubert/ABER/marsden.htm (3088 words)

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		The river continues southwest passing Glynneath and Resolven before reaching the confluence with the River Dulais at Aberdulais.
		The river is regularly stocked with brown trout and has a growing reputation for the annual runs of sea-trout and salmon which enter the system.
		The river is essentially a brown trout fishery as the Aberdulais Falls forms a natural barrier to migratory species moving into the headwaters.
	nadac.freeservers.com (810 words)

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		It borders the districts of Swansea and Lliw Valley to the west, Brecknock to the north, Cynon Valley to the east, and Port Talbot to the south and southwest.
		The town of Neath is the district seat.
		In about AD 75 the Romans chose the site, on the River Neath (Nedd), for a fort, Nidum, to protect their road from Gloucester to Carmarthen at the lowest practicable crossing of the river.
	members.lycos.co.uk /neath/history.htm (304 words)

	Swansea Heritage Net
		Neath Valley, river scene / probably one of the images with the title "Neath", exhibited 1855 Photographic Society of London.
		Neath Valley / possibly one of several images of the Neath Valley exhibited 1855 at the London Photographic Institution and also at the Photographic Society of London.
		Pont Nedd Vechan, in the Neath Valley / this is probably the image titled "At Pont Neath Vaughan, Vale of Neath" which was exhibited in 1855 at the Photographic Society of London.
	www.swanseaheritage.net /article/viewall.asp?offset=200 (2928 words)

	Tape: 108, Side: B, Ted Hayler 1910-1940
		Ted Hayler was born at Merewether in 1897.
		He moved to Cessnock in 1910 were his father worked at the Neath Colliery.
		In 1924 he was appointed under-manager at Neath pit.
	www.amol.org.au /newcastle/greta/oral/tape108b.html (102 words)

	chapter8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Passage of the rivers Avon and Neth - and of Abertawe and Goer
		The monastery of Neath was situated on the banks of a river bearing the same name, about a mile to the westward of the town and castle.
		Sweynsei, Swansea, or Abertawe, situated at the confluence of the river Tawe with the Severn sea, is a town of considerable commerce, and much frequented during the summer months as a bathing-place.
	www.red4.co.uk /ebooks/itinerary/bk1ch8.htm (1004 words)

	History by Waterway from Tamar Manure Navigation
		Description: Intended as a river improvement Morwellham to Blanchdown and a tub-boat canal on to Tamerton bridge on the River Bude but only improvements to a 2.75 miles, 1 lock, stretch of the Tamar were completed.
		He reported that Charles Tennant was considering doing away with the little used lock to the River Neath at Red Jacket and "if there was any traffic likely to come that way to have a capstan with a carriage to take a barge on it from the river to the branch canal".
		Blocked the river at Wilden with his ferry rope, then built a bridge of boats and defended it with hired men, to stop a group of Nottingham merchants from using the river.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History26.html (2576 words)

	River Neath Habitat Improvement Scheme
		With help from the steering group and key stakeholders, the Agency aim to maximise the potential of the fishery and to raise the profile of the River Neath bringing visiting anglers to the area and bolstering the local economy.
		There are also areas of the main river that do have a lack of tree cover, mainly due to the river diversions associated with the A465.
		The initial meeting of the Neath steering group was arranged for the beginning of September, this meeting invited external stakeholders to give a contribution to the project.
	www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk /europeanoffice/projects/river_neath.cfm (1037 words)

	GENUKI: Transcript of Neath, from Slaters Commercial Directory 1858-9
		Neath is a contributory borough, and shares with other places named in the account of the latter town) in the elective franchise; and it is included in the thirtieth circuit of towns under the County Court Act, held here monthly, for the recovery of debts to any amount not exceeding £50.
		On the entrance to Cadoxton from Neath, is the Vale of Neath Brewery - an establishment worthy of notice - justly considered one of the most compact in the kingdom.
		The 'Vale of Neath' is justly celebrated for its beautiful scenery and waterfalls, which are visited by numerous parties in the spring and summer.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/GLA/Neath/slaters.1858.html (2675 words)

	Valley and Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This basin is a modern widening of the canal at the Town.
		Neath was to decline as a Port from this time with Briton Ferry expanding.
		The lock is presently empty and clean water is being pumped into the lower canal from the river.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /g.brian.wagstaffe/Section1.html (497 words)

	Neath and Tennant Canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Was a 3½ mile canal across the Crymlyn bog in Glamorganshire from Glan-Y-Wern to Red Jacket pill on (but not connected with) the River Neath.
		On 12 July 1790 a meeting was held at the Ship and Castle at Neath, attended by Lord Vernon and local people, at which it was resolved that a canal from Pontneddfechan to Neath would be of great public benefit.
		A 1 mile 7 furlong canal connecing to the Glan-y-wern Canal and thus connecting the River Neath with the River Tawe.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Neath-and-Tennant-Canals.html (709 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Neas-Nek) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Neath (known in Welsh as Castell-nedd) is a town in Neath And Port Talbot, Wales, near the mouth of the river Neath.
		The Roman fort of Nidum was discovered nearby in 1949 and there are also the remains of a Norman castle and abbey.
		The Neckar is a river in south-west Germany, rising in the Black Forest and flowing 394 km generally north into the Rhine at Mannheim.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /GKAD.HTM (713 words)

	SWANSEA - Online Information article about SWANSEA
		For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr.
		Lying parallel to the sea front and to the west of the entrance channel from which it runs at right angles, it has an area of 13 acres with a half-tide basin of 4 acres and a lock 300 ft. long by 6o ft. wide.
		The trusteesare conservators of the river Tawe and parts of Swansea Bay, and the pilotage and lighthouse authority of the district.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/SWANSEA.html (4608 words)

	Pelobates - Issue 8 - Little Neath River Cave - Croydon Caving Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is 4 miles north of the A465 along the Neath Valley.
		However, after hard work by rescue teams, Fire Brigade and locals the river was diverted allowing exit from the cave.
		This task incidentally is impossible when the river is in full spate.
	www.croydoncavingclub.org.uk /Archive/Pelobates/008/S10.htm (532 words)

	Neath on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Neath cut loose as the row rumbles on.(Sport)
		Football: Neath pass exam as they hand out lesson; Phillips so happy as his 'pupils' put in near-perfect performance at Cardiff.(Sport)
		Action de Yannick Lafforgue de Béziers Béziers, battu par les Gallois de Neath (23-18), lundi en match comptant pour la 5e.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/neath.asp (631 words)

	UKtouristinfo.com [the ultimate guide to the UK]
		Neath is an historic town retaining its former character and its culture.
		Musical entertainment can be enjoyed at the Gwyn Hall, a place that plays a big part in the social life of Neath.
		Other attractions to visit are Neath Abbey and the River Neath.
	www.uktouristinfo.com /town2.php?county=Glamorgan&town=Neath (70 words)

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