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Dramatic Wooded Hillside - looking NE from centre of square (across the M4)
©Chris Shaw
©Kevin Trahar
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.5km<br/>Gwaith Dur Port Talbot & Bae Abertawe Port Talbot Steel Works & Swansea Bay
©Alan Richards
Dist:0.5km<br/>Swansea Bay CHL/Coast Defence Radar Station. The Coast Defence/Chain Home Low chain was set up to provide radar plotting of both shipping and aircraft movements and operated on the same 1.5 m wavelength as CHL stations. The CD/CHL stations were originally manned solely by the Army, or jointly by all three services, until the RAF assumed responsibility for them. A 60 Group (RAF) Statement Map (2nd edition) identifies Swansea Bay as a CHL (Type 2) Station.The equipment was housed in a building sharing many similarities with the brick CHL combined transmitter/receiver block, but the gantry supporting the aerial array was mounted on top of the block rather than on the ground with four buttresses for support. Three concrete buildings survive at the Swansea Bay site on the east side of a public footpath running along the ridge that overlooks Swansea Bay. The largest of these, at the north end of the site, was the operations block which is of the standard design illustrated in the diagram above. It is divided into three rooms with some of the windows retaining their metal shutters. The building is completely empty apart from some wiring remnants. A 10 foot high metal gantry on the roof would have mounted the radar array.The power house is located a few yards to the south, this is a smaller rectangular concrete building with a blast protected door at one end and small vents high in each wall. As this station was not connected to mains electricity this building would have housed a diesel generator. All that remains now is the concrete engine bed. An identical building stands 100 yards to the south east close to an electricity pylon. This would have housed a standby generator which would have been used if the main set failed.
©Kevin Trahar
Dist:0.6km<br/>This old hothouse or greenhouse / glasshouse has seen better days but if restored would make a great facility. (Maybe a garden centre chain would be interested in sharing the redevelopment of the site?) Who knows. Its interesting as it is.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.6km<br/>Visible from the M4 Motorway, this used to be part of the abbey situated in Margam Park. It's a 15 minute walk from the park (assuming you start from outside the park). Its isolated location on the side of the hill must have once made it a peaceful retreat but today, it commands a good view of the M4 motorway, not to mention the steel works and oil refinery nearby.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.6km<br/>Dywedir i Gapel Mair ar y Bryn fod gynt yn addoldy i blwyfolion Margam. Ymddengys nad oedd hawl ganddynt addoli yn yr abaty islaw. Heddiw, addolwyd yng nghorff yr abaty - yr unig ran a oroesir o'r hen adeilad mawreddog hwn. 'Capel Mair ar y Bryn'(St Mary's on the Hill)was formerly the place of worship for the parishioners of Margam as they were not allowed, it seems, to worship in the nearby abbey. Today, the parishioners worship in the abbey nave- the only surviving part of this once great edifice.
©Alan Richards
Dist:0.6km<br/>The museum is in the corner of the grounds of Margam Abbey. Also to the right is the Abbotts Kitchen restaurant
©John Finch
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©John Lord
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©John Lord
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©John Finch
Dist:0.7km<br/>Maragm Orangery is the longest in the UK (99m / 327 ft) and was designed by Anthony Keck. It took only three years to build between 1787 and 1790. It would have displayed Thomas Mansel Talbot's collection of orange and lemon trees and statues gathered on his Grand Tour of Europe from 1768 to 1772. Today it is used for functions, events, wedding receptions and conferences.
©Jeremy Bolwell
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©Mick Lobb
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking NE towards the hillside
©Chris Shaw

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