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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]
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.
The family had bought Margam Abbey and its extensive 18,725 acres (7,578 ha) parish of Margam during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Having then married with the Mansels of Oxwich and Penrice, the Talbots had become Glamorgan’s largest resident landowners, with estates totalling 34,000 acres (14,000 ha) in that county alone.
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.
Summary Description Margam Park, Bodvoc stone - replica, in ring cairn.JPG 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.
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