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It looks like this road was dug under the railway as an afterthought. The low bridge, narrow road and tight dip combine to hinder this rat run. In heavy rain the dip can fill up. In freak conditions this is one of the first roads to become impassable.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.2km<br/>Due to the low bridge ([[260106]]) around the corner off to the left at the end of the straight warning apparatus has been installed. Here you can see two poles on either side of the road in the foreground. If a vehicle breaks the beams shining between them a sign in the distance lights up.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking north-north-west
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.7km<br/>Corporation Road in Swansea's Fforestfach industrial estate runs through undeveloped land. Access to the road has been blocked off with huge boulders and concrete blocks. On the maps the road has many junctions leaving it that go nowhere. It must have been created with the intention of extending the estate. New signs are in place, directing visitors as if the road were already open. This is the view southwest from one of dead end junctions, across the wastelends to where construction has started.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.9km<br/>The Alcoa aluminium rolling operations based in Waunarlwydd produces coil for the drinks can industry.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.0km<br/>Not a public right-of-way and apparently little used.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.0km<br/>Looking north from the approach road to Alcoa, see [[1042562]].
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Looking north to the Alcoa plant
©Martin Bodman
Dist:1.1km north<br/>
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.2km west<br/>This straight path runs directly south from Westwinds Close to the former mine. A local told me it is the route of an old rail line over to the Alcoa metal works to the north. Although the finger post shows it is a public footpath it is not marked as such on any OS map.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>The maps show a bridge and path south from here across the river through Ystrad Isaf. The path was not a legal right of way and now it is gone. The metal footbridge has been torn from its footings and now lies in the water just downstream.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.4km northeast<br/>The sun has just set over Tesco in Fforest-fach near Swansea.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:1.4km east<br/>
©Alex McGregor
Dist:1.4km southwest<br/>This air shaft has long since been filled in (as has the actual mine shaft). At least three of the walls have had holes knocked in them - presumably to allow the filling to take place. The whole area is slowly returning to forest.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.4km south<br/>These transmitters are very close to the water tower at the top of the hill, but just make it into the next grid square.
©Nigel Davies

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