Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot

Name: Aberavon Beach
Address: Port Talbot, United Kingdom

#5 among attractions in Port Talbot

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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. Aberavon Beach was awarded Blue Flag status in December 2007 and features in the Good Beach Guide published by the Marine Conservation Society. ()

Coordinates: 51°35'47"N, 3°49'35"W

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Port Talbot United Kingdom

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Aberavon Beach – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Aberafan Shopping Centre, Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Swansea Bay Golf Club, St Theodore's Church.

1.8 miE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Aberafan Shopping Centre, Port Talbot
45 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.
0.6 miE
Specialty museum, Museum
Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Port Talbot
16 min walk • The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is a private museum located in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.
2.4 miNW
51°37'38"N • 3°51'7"W
Swansea Bay Golf Club, Neath
61 min walk • Golf
2.4 miE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot
61 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.
1.6 miNE
Church
St Catharine's Church
42 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.
2.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd-y-Gaer, Afan Forest Park
72 min walk • 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.
3.1 miNW
51°37'20"N • 3°53'6"W
1940s Swansea Bay, Swansea
79 min walk • Museum, Military museum, Specialty museum
1.8 miE
Church
Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot
47 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...
2.4 miE
Memorial
Talbot Memorial Park, Port Talbot
62 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.
3.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Crymlyn Burrows
79 min walk • Crymlyn Burrows is an area of land in Wales, UK to the east of Swansea city centre, and south of Crymlyn Bog. It is bounded by Jersey Marine Beach to the south and the River Neath to the east.
3.4 miSE
Church
Beulah Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
88 min walk • Beulah Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, also known locally as "The Round Chapel" and in Welsh as "Capel y Groes", is a Grade II*-listed building in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales.