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A well known hostelry on the B4242 between Aberdulais and Glynneath.
©Cedwyn Davies
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.2km<br/>The River Neath near the Rock and Fountain Public House
©Alan Roberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>The River Neath below the footbridge and old canal bridge.
©Alan Roberts
Dist:0.4km<br/>Various sections of the Neath canal are being restored. Here we see several locks in a row have been refurbished. Despite the locks being in full working order the canal itself is beginning to get overgrown. With the remaining sections broken up by modern developments I wonder how much use the canal will get.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Neath Canal is now in water from just above these locks at Clyne through Lock Machin and into Neath Town centre where a low bridge at Bridge street stops navigation. Several yards above these locks at Clyne work has started to rebuild the Ynysbwllog aqueduct damaged by flooding.
©Hywel Jenkins
Dist:0.7km<br/>The railway that runs up the Vale of Neath and ends in Blaengwrach crosses a small side road here. Although the tracks look recently used, it can't be a very busy railway since the gates are padlocked and have to be manually opened.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.9km<br/>The Neath Canal Navigation Company are seen here reinforcing the side of the canal at Clyne with Gabion walling.
©Hywel Jenkins
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©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>A modern footbridge over the River Neath. The arches either side are the remains of the former Neath Canal aqueduct.
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>This photo shows the new East pier ready for fixing the trough and the West pier concrete about to be poured
©nantcoly
Dist:1.1km north<br/>A section of dry stone wall in reasonable repair marks the Route of the Sarn Helen Roman Road above Aberdulais. Here the Road passes through mountain farmland and continues north in the distance across open common.
©phil Richards
Dist:1.1km south<br/>The Neath Canal was built for the shipping of limestone, silica, coal, gunpowder and other materials from the head of the Neath Valley to the works of Neath and Swansea and is at present being restored.
©nantcoly
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Hidden in the shadows is the signposted entrance to the Roman Road that is categorised as a 'byway open to all traffic' despite its historic significance.
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.4km northeast<br/>The footbridge has been removed crossing the River Neath and the piers of the old aqueduct at Ynysbwllog have been removed. This is to allow new piers to be built to support a cast iron trough. The trough will be in a single span and when completed it will be the longest span in Britain.
©Hywel Jenkins

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