Margam Country Park

#854 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Margam Country Park is a country park estate in Wales, of around 850 acres. It is situated in Margam, about 2 miles from Port Talbot in south Wales. It was once owned by the Mansel Talbot family and is now owned and administered by the local council, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Situated within the park are three notable buildings: Margam Abbey, a Cistercian monastery; Margam Castle, a neo-Gothic country house that was once the seat of the Mansel Talbot family; and the 18th-century Orangery. ()

Created: 1977Elevation: 282 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°33'42"N, 3°43'5"W

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Nearby attractions include: Margam Stones Museum, Maesteg Town Hall, Maesteg Golf Club, Margam Castle.

0.5 miW
Specialty museum, Museum, Archaeological museum
Margam Stones Museum, Port Talbot
14 min walk • Margam Stones Museum is a small Victorian schoolhouse near Port Talbot, South Wales, which now provides a home for one of the most important collections of Celtic stone crosses in Britain.
4.1 miNE
City hall
Maesteg Town Hall, Maesteg
105 min walk • Maesteg Town Hall is a municipal structure in Talbot Street, Maesteg, Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Masteg Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.8 miNE
51°36'39"N • 3°40'37"W
Maesteg Golf Club, Maesteg
98 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
~1640 ftW
Forts and castles
Margam Castle
8 min walk • Margam Castle, Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, is a Victorian country house built for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. Designed by Thomas Hopper, the castle was constructed in a Tudor Revival style over a ten-year period, from 1830 to 1840.
3.8 miNW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Aberafan Shopping Centre, Port Talbot
97 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.
2.9 miNW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot
76 min walk • The Church of St Theodore is a parish church in Port Talbot, Wales; Located on the A48 opposite Maes-y-Cwrt Terrace and bordered on two sides by the Talbot Memorial Park, it is administered within the diocese of Llandaff.
3 miNE
Forts and castles
Llangynwyd Castle
77 min walk • Llangynwyd Castle is a ruined castle, probably of the 12th century, in Llangynwyd, in Bridgend County Borough, South Wales, just to the south of Maesteg.
3 miS
Neighbourhood
Kenfig Pool, Porthcawl
77 min walk • Kenfig Pool is a national nature reserve situated near Porthcawl, Bridgend. Wild storms and huge tides between the 13th and 15th centuries are mainly responsible for creating the Kenfig dunes near Porthcawl, as they threw vast quantities of sand up over the Glamorgan coast.
0.6 miSW
Monastery
Margam Abbey
16 min walk • Margam Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located in the village of Margam, a suburb of modern Port Talbot in Wales.
3.7 miNW
Church
Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot
95 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...
2.9 miNW
Memorial
Talbot Memorial Park, Port Talbot
75 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.