South Wales Miners' Museum, Afan Forest Park

Name: South Wales Miners' Museum
Address: Afan Forest Park, Cynonville, Afan Forest Park, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Afan Forest Park

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The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales Coalfield. It is located at Cynonville within the Afan Forest Park Visitor Centre in the Afan Forest Park, near the small village of Cymmer in Neath Port Talbot. ()

Established: 1976 (48 years ago)Coordinates: 51°38'29"N, 3°42'12"W

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Afan Forest Park, CynonvilleAfan Forest Park United Kingdom

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South Wales Miners' Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Melincourt Falls, Maesteg Town Hall, Maesteg Golf Club, Aberdulais Golf Range & Academy.

4.1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Melincourt Falls, Neath
106 min walk • Melincourt Falls is an 80 feet high waterfall on Melin Court Brook, a left-bank tributary of the River Neath / Afon Nedd, located 1-mile south of Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, south Wales.
3 miSE
City hall
Maesteg Town Hall, Maesteg
76 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.
2.4 miSE
51°36'39"N • 3°40'37"W
Maesteg Golf Club, Maesteg
62 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
4 miNW
51°40'36"N • 3°46'37"W
Aberdulais Golf Range & Academy, Neath
102 min walk • Golf
4.6 miW
City hall
Neath Town Hall, Neath
118 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.
4.6 miW
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Neath Castle, Neath
118 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.
4.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Aberdulais Falls, Neath
110 min walk • The Aberdulais Falls are found on the River Dulais at Aberdulais, near Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The falls are formed as the river plunges over beds of hard Lower Pennant Sandstone just before meeting the River Neath flowing down the Vale of Neath.
3.8 miNW
Park
Gnoll Country Park, Neath
98 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.
3.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd-y-Gaer, Afan Forest Park
93 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.
4.5 miW
Park
Victoria Gardens, Neath
115 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.
4.3 miSE
Forts and castles
Llangynwyd Castle
111 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.

South Wales Miners' Museum, Afan Forest Park

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South Wales Miners' Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)