Mynydd-y-Gaer, Afan Forest Park

Name: Mynydd-y-Gaer
Address: Afan Forest Park, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Afan Forest Park

Nature, Top attraction, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Mynydd-y-Gaer is a hill that sits on the boundaries between the South Wales communities of Baglan, Cwmavon and Briton Ferry, all within Neath Port Talbot county borough. The summit, at 314 m, has grassland fields subdivided by dry stone walls. Foel Fynyddau lies 2 km to east. To the south is the coastal plain of the Bristol Channel. To the West is the Vale of Neath. To the north is the Crythan Brook and the town of Neath. It has numerous prehistoric monuments, and evidence of occupation in medieval times, as well as 19th and 20th century coalmining. ()

Elevation: 1030 ftProminence: 262 ftCoordinates: 51°37'39"N, 3°47'4"W

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Afan Forest Park United Kingdom

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Mynydd-y-Gaer – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Aberafan Shopping Centre, Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Neath Town Hall, Neath Castle.

2.1 miS
Shopping, Shopping centre
Aberafan Shopping Centre, Port Talbot
55 min walk • The Aberafan Shopping Centre is the only indoor shopping complex in Port Talbot, Wales. It currently has a floorspace of 24,100 m2 and houses over sixty stores on two levels, as well as the central library for Port Talbot. It was built in the 1970s by Star Dolphin Developments and was refurbished in the late 1990s.
2.6 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum
Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Port Talbot
67 min walk • The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is a private museum located in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.
2.7 miN
City hall
Neath Town Hall, Neath
68 min walk • Neath Town Hall is a municipal building in Church Place, Neath, South Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Neath Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
2.7 miN
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Neath Castle, Neath
70 min walk • Neath Castle is a Norman castle located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Its construction was begun by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the nominal Lord of Glamorgan, at a date estimated between 1114 and 1130.
2.6 miN
Shopping, Market
Neath Indoor Market, Neath
67 min walk • Neath Indoor Market is an indoor market located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. The market building dates back to 1837. It was renovated in 1904, and most recently in 1999.
2.5 miN
Park
Gnoll Country Park, Neath
65 min walk • The Gnoll Country Park is a park in Wales. It is an early-18th-century landscaped garden covering over 100 acres in the Vale of Neath, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in south Wales.
1.2 miSW
Church
St Catharine's Church
30 min walk • St Catharine's Church is the mother church of the parish of Baglan in Port Talbot, South Wales. The church is a Grade I listed building, built between 1875 and 1882, at the expense of Griffith Llewellyn, then owner of nearby Baglan Hall.
2.4 miN
Park
Victoria Gardens, Neath
63 min walk • The Victoria Gardens is a Grade II registered park in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Neath Borough Council purchased two hectares of land in the centre of Neath in 1856 to provide an open space for the people of Neath.
2.8 miSW
Beach
Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot
72 min walk • Aberavon Beach, also known as Aberavon Sands, is a three-mile stretch of sandy beach on the north-eastern edge of Swansea Bay in Port Talbot, Wales. With its high breaker waves, it is popular with surfers.
2.1 miS
Church
Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot
54 min walk • Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon, is a Baptist church in Port Talbot, Wales. Built in 1881, it is located in the Civic Square, where it is the only surviving building from the old Port Talbot town centre to have survived the wholesale demolition that preceded the construction of a new...
2.8 miS
Memorial
Talbot Memorial Park, Port Talbot
71 min walk • The war memorial at Port Talbot, Wales, commemorates local men killed in the First World War and Second World War. It is located in the Talbot Memorial Park, where it was erected in 1925; the names from the Second World War were added later.