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Dist:0.2km<br/>This entrance allows access to Kilvey Hill from the south. The woodland is owned by the Forestry Commission but is named as a community wood.
©Nigel Davies
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©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:0.5km<br/>See [[2447785]] for a wider shot of the ruin.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.5km<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:0.5km<br/>This photograph looks westwards from the A483 Fabian Way pedestrian overbridge. This A road was built during the 1960s to relieve pressure on the narrow Port Tennant Road which until this time was the main thoroughfare. Prior to this development, the land occupied by what became Fabian Way consisted of various coal yards, factories and railway sidings serving the dockyard. A 1950s OS Map shows a wooden barrel factory would have occupied the land directly in front of this overbridge. Garden allotments could be found beyond this factory until the mid-1950s. Prior to 1900, a pathway existed linking Port Tennant Road (near to the base of Baglan Street) and an entry point into the railway and docks complex. The entry point consisted of a tunnel under railway lines and would have been situated where the car wash site begins today (just within the embankment) Passing through the tunnel afforded you access to the original Port Tennant Inn (demolished around 1890) and various branches of the Tennant Canal. This tunnel was blocked sometime c1910 as the dock railway rapidly expanded. Remains of the tunnel entrance could be seen as late as the early 1990s before council landscaping took place. Until the 1990s the car wash site was occupied by a Shell petrol station. Railway lines ran on the embankment on the left until the late 1980s and served Swansea Eastern Depot (Swansea East Dock station until the 1930s).
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Dist:0.6km<br/>This trig point is positioned inside the Fabian Way Park & Ride complex, next to Wern Fawr Road, just before the junction with Wern Terrace. This area used to contain coal and freight sidings for the GWR (Vale of Neath) and Rhondda & Swansea Bay railway companies. The last trains ran through this area during the 1990s. The area was cleared during 2001-2 in preparation for the Park & Ride service.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>A three-way stone windbreak with small integral bench seats.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>Kilvey Hill lies to the west of Swansea, just across the river Tawe from the city centre, and can be seen from all over the city.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>The angle of the shot has combined two masts on the left - a low mobile phone one in the foreground and a tall television mast directly behind it.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>The southern most part of Wern Terrace (originally named Vale of Neath Road until the 1970s) was originally partially covered by three separate railway viaducts carrying passenger and freight services operated by the Rhondda & Swansea Bay (RSBR) and Vale of Neath (VON) Railways. These lines were eventually taken over by the GWR. The area between the two viaduct abutments at road level was originally recessed allowing stepped access to the signal cabin that was sited between two sets of running lines. By the late 1980s only the former VON track was in use as part of the route serving Swansea Eastern Depot (Fabian Way). All viaducts had been removed by the late 1990s.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Photograph shows the rear yard of the former Vale of Neath Arms public house. This V-shaped building at 111 Fabian Way (SA1 8PA) closed to customers in the mid 1990s. At the time of visiting, there are plans to convert the building into flats. Prior to the 1950s, other commercial buildings were situated to the right of this yard. The rear wall of the yard originally backed onto railway viaducts that took freight lines over Wern Terrace. The level of the backyard represents the original level of the main road (ex-Vale of Neath Road) prior to the 1960s construction of artificially raised Fabian Way.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Photograph shows the former Vale of Neath Arms public house. This V-shaped building at 111 Fabian Way (SA1 8PA) closed to customers in the mid 1990s. At the time of visiting, there are plans to convert the building into flats. Originally, there were other commercial buildings to the right of this building forming a terrace. The Tennant Canal originally flowed just in front of this building. The level of the backyard represents the original level of the road (ex-Vale of Neath Road) prior to the 1960s construction of artificially raised Fabian Way.
©vectorkraft
Dist:0.6km<br/>No. 5783 (built 7/30) had had its day; withdrawn in 3/62, it was dumped at the end of the Yard.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.7km<br/>Open view of the hotel. May be more built up very soon.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.7km<br/>View northward, in the sidings on the north side of East Dock. One of several Locomotive Depots in the Swansea area, this Depot was the ex-GWR one serving the Docks traffic. Coded 87D under BR in the Neath Division, in 1954 it had an allocation of 35:- 3 2-8-2T, 7 2-8-0T, 6 0-6-2T, 16 0-6-0T and 3 0-4-0T: it was closed in 6/64. Collett 2-8-2T No. 7248 was a 10/38 rebuild of Churchward 2-8-0T No. 4249 built 4/16. The 2-8-2Ts and 2-8-0Ts were employed on the heaviest coal trains, mainly on relatively short journeys in South Wales but often they went much further afield into England. In the background is Townhill.
©Ben Brooksbank

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