Port Talbot Steelworks, Port Talbot

Name: Port Talbot Steelworks
Address: Port Talbot, United Kingdom

#9 among attractions in Port Talbot

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Port Talbot Steelworks is an integrated steel production plant in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, capable of producing nearly 5 million tonnes of steel slab per annum. This makes it the larger of the two major steel plants in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. Over 4,000 people work at the plant. The majority of the slab is rolled on-site at Port Talbot and at the Newport Llanwern site to make a variety of steel strip products. The remainder is processed at other Tata Steel plants or sold in slab form. The works covers a large area of land which dominates the south of the town. Its two blast furnaces and steel production plant buildings are major landmarks visible from both the M4 motorway and the South Wales Main Line when passing through the town. ()

Coordinates: 51°33'58"N, 3°46'6"W

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Port Talbot United Kingdom

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Port Talbot Steelworks – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Margam Stones Museum, Margam Castle, Aberafan Shopping Centre, Baked Bean Museum of Excellence.

1.6 miE
Specialty museum, Museum, Archaeological museum
Margam Stones Museum, Port Talbot
42 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.
1.9 miE
Forts and castles
Margam Castle
48 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.
2.2 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Aberafan Shopping Centre, Port Talbot
58 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.
2.7 miNW
Specialty museum, Museum
Baked Bean Museum of Excellence, Port Talbot
70 min walk • The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is a private museum located in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.
2.2 miE
Park
Margam Country Park
56 min walk • 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.
1.5 miN
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot
38 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.
3.7 miNW
Church
St Catharine's Church
94 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.
3.3 miNW
Beach
Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot
83 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.
3.5 miSE
Neighbourhood
Kenfig Pool, Porthcawl
90 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.
1.8 miE
Monastery
Margam Abbey
47 min walk • Margam Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located in the village of Margam, a suburb of modern Port Talbot in Wales.
2.2 miN
Church
Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot
58 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...