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©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.0km<br/>This standing stone lies incongruously just off the road in a busy housing estate.
©Dave Farmer
Dist:1.0km<br/>The purpose of this standing stone is not known, but it lies close to the route take by a Roman road from Loughor, crossing the River Tawe near here. It may have been a route marker.
©Dave Farmer
Dist:1.0km<br/>Site of the demolished Tir-John power station with Swansea Visteon plant and Crymlyn Burrows Incinerator plant in the background.
©Kevin Trahar
Dist:1.0km south<br/>
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Probably no longer in use since there are buildings to the north and a tall fence immediately south. This shot is taken over the fence from some scrub land into the rear car park of Bonymaen RFC.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>Seepage from old coal mines deposits iron-rich sediment near the head of the Glan-y-Wern Canal (1790), reputed to be the first canal in Wales. There is a treacherous vegetation mat over soft peat.
©Kevin Gilman
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>This carved wooden dragon keeps a watchful eye on all those entering the Swansea suburb of Bon-y-maen.
©Kevin Flynn
Dist:1.2km north<br/>These distinctive blocks perched atop Bonymaen hill are visible from quite some distance.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km north<br/>This rugby club was the one featured in the BBC's documentary series "The Rugby Club". I think it was also the one used in the film "Twin Town"
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km east<br/>Wet woodland and tussock sedge downstream of Freeman's Bund, an old retention pond on the edge of the Crymlyn Bog Special Area of Conservation. The nearby Llandarcy oil refinery, which has dominated the east side of the Bog since 1922, is now being decommissioned, and is soon to be replaced by the Coed Darcy housing development.
©Kevin Gilman
Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>See [[2447785]] for a wider shot of the ruin.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>The only remains of the windmill are this small raised hill and a fragment of wall. See [[2447788]] for a closeup of the wall fragment.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km south<br/>Ashlands Sports Centre is located at Wern Fawr Road, Port Tennant, Swansea, SA1 8LQ. This photograph was taken from the path that runs alongside the disused railway lines that headed towards Burrows Sidings. The sports centre and its pitches occupy the former 'Carbon Black' works operated by the now defunct United Carbon Black Ltd. The plant which opened in 1948 made 'Dixie and Kosmos grade' carbon black - substances used in the manufacture of tyres and other rubber products. A tar distillery was located next to the works until the 1970s. The Ecologist magazine (Vol 1 No 12 June 1971) documented just how Swansea's residents had suffered for 21 years as a result of the pollution caused by this plant. In 1970 the plant planned to increase production of its carbon black products by 35%, however by 1971 United Carbon Black Ltd was forced to spend money (£35,000 - 1971 prices) in order to improve air emissions as a result of a vigorous local pressure group (Box, S. 1983; The National Archives FD 9/1396) United Carbon Black Sales Limited was struck off from the companies register in 1979 (p2883, London Gazette 2nd March 1979). United Carbon Black Ltd became Ashland United Kingdom Chemical Ltd. The site was cleared in the 1980s. The walls before the sports centre date back to the original plant.
©vectorkraft
Dist:1.3km south<br/>This is a view of the Tennant Canal as seen from the eastern extremity of Wern Fawr Road. The canal led into Swansea Docks until the 1950s (albeit marked as disused on maps); official canal freight operations ceased as early as 1920. The railway viaduct carried freight into Burrows Sidings until the late 1980s. There was a connection with the Marcroft Wagon Works just to the right of this position until the 1990s. The condition of this canal (in 2011) improves as you travel towards Jersey Marine and Neath.
©vectorkraft

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