Velindre Bridge

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footbridge, Grade II Listed (UK)

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Early C19 horse-drawn railway bridge. Associated with the development of industry in Cwmavon and providing an export route towards the docks which were established in Aberavon in 1837. Shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of 1881 as the Cwmavon Tramway. It was widened to the E in the late C19 or early C20 to carry the double tracks of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway.

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Coordinates: 51°35'56"N 3°46'49"W

Sandfields 2.4 km
Port Talbot Steel Works 3.6 km
Former site of BP Chemicals, Baglan Bay 3.8 km
Baglan Energy Park 3.9 km
Mynydd Margam 5.3 km
Margam Country Park 5.9 km
Eglwys Nunydd reservoir 6.1 km
Swansea Bay 7.6 km
Kenfig Pool and Dunes National Nature Reserve 9 km
Bristol Channel 28 km

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Sandfields Port Talbot Steel Works Former site of BP Chemicals, Baglan Bay Baglan Energy Park Mynydd Margam Margam Country Park Eglwys Nunydd reservoir Swansea Bay Kenfig Pool and Dunes National Nature Reserve Bristol Channel