Skewen
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Skewen () is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station and has its own rugby club.
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Place details
- Locality
- Skewen
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.welsh_name
- Sgiwen
- UK place.official_name
- Skewen
- UK place.static_image_name
- Skewen in 2004.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view over Skewen
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Neath Port Talbot
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- West Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Neath and Swansea East
- UK place.post_town
- NEATH
- UK place.postcode_district
- SA10
- UK place.postcode_area
- SA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01792
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS727974
- UK place.population
- 8,500
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Encyclopedic overview
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Skewen () is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station and has its own rugby club.
==History== Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village. The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath Abbey Ironworks were once important industrial sites which stood close by. Old top-loading blast furnaces can also be seen at Neath Abbey. To the south of Skewen lies the village of Llandarcy, the site of the United Kingdom's first oil refinery. The site of this former oil refinery is now being developed as an urban village called Coed Darcy, a development which was promoted at its start by the Prince of Wales's Foundation for the Built Environment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skewen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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