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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.
Margam Abbey ruins 1805. The abbey was founded in 1147 as a daughter house of Clairvaux by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.Early Christian crosses found in the close vicinity and conserved in the nearby Margam Stones Museum suggest the existence of an earlier Celtic monastic community.
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 ...
Although the river has few significant tributaries, it picks up a few small streams on its course. Major tributaries include the Nant Iorwaeth-goch, which joins the river as it turns westward north of Kenfig Hill, the Afon Fach, a stream which flows through North Cornelly and Pyle, and the Coal Brook, which rises in Margam Park.
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.