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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.
Public park [12] The park opened in 1925 on land that the Earl of Jersey had given for use as a public park in 1908. The original layout of formal and informal areas has been retained. There are sporting facilities in the northern part of the park with woodland areas to the south. [13] II: PGW(Gm)62(NEP) Margam Park: Margam SS8092886218
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]
Margam was formerly the name of the electoral ward which included the communities of Margam and Margam Moors. The Margam ward elected a county councillor to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. It included areas such as Port Talbot Steelworks, Eglwys Nunydd, Margam Country Park, the Margam Suburb, Port Talbot Docks and Margam Sands beach.
See more images Margam Abbey Chapter House Margam SS8019786264 51°33′45″N 3°43′47″W / 51.562509293815°N 3.72972384304°W / 51.562509293815; -3.72972384304 (Margam Abbey Chapter House) 12 November 1952 Ruin Located in a central position in the gardens at Margam Park, to the NE of the orangery. 14149 See more images Margam Abbey Undercroft Margam SS8019086230 51°33 ...
The area has a long history of agriculture that has developed from the Roman era. The Vale is not a valley in the geographical sense, but a plateau. It lies at between 50 and 2,000 feet above sea level and rises to 4,000 feet at Mynydd Margam and Garth Hill. This makes it a homogeneous region with distinct characteristics which set it apart ...
Margam Country Park is a frequent destination for the World Rally Championships and is very popular with tourists all year round. The park houses Go Ape tree tops adventure, Margam Castle, Margam Abbey, Margam Orangery, a fairy tale adventure playground and is set in extensive parkland.
Saint Illtyd's Walk is a 64-mile-long (103 km) waymarked long-distance footpath in South Wales.It runs from Pembrey Country Park, west of Burry Port, through rural eastern Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot to end at Margam Country Park, south of Port Talbot.