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Margam Country Park is a country park estate in Wales, of around 850 acres (3.4 km 2). It is situated in Margam , about 2 miles (3 km) 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 .
The Margam estate was occupied in the Iron Age, and the remains of a hill fort from that period, Mynydd-y-Castell, stands north of the castle. [1] After the Norman Invasion of Wales, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Lord of Glamorgan, granted the lands at Margam to Clairvaux Abbey, for the establishment of a new Cistercian monastery which became Margam Abbey. [2]
English: A 6th-century AD pillar inscribed 'The stone of Bodvoc', set in a Bronze Age cairn on the ridge near Mynydd Margam Summit iis now in Margam Stones Museum. This concrete replica now occupies the middle of the cairn.
The river rises in the forest of Mynydd Margam, southwest of Maesteg. From here it flows south, and turns west near the town of Pyle , through the area known as the M4 Corridor . The river is at the northern edge of the Kenfig National Nature Reserve , a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest .
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Summary Description Margam Park, Danish Camp.JPG English: Oval bank 33m by 42m across on the edge of a 20th-century forest plantation, although the area of the camp was left as a clearing.
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