Briton Ferry
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Briton Ferry is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The Welsh name may indicate that the church, llan, is protected from the wind, awel. Alternatively, Sawel may be
Neath Road, Briton Ferry geograph.org.uk 127633
The western viaduct of the first road crossing of the River Neath at Briton Ferry in 1986
The first St Mary's Church (pictured here in 2013) was founded in the 6th century
William Daniell's Briton Ferry, painted in 1814 (Tate Gallery)
John Leland (antiquary)
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John Leland or Leyland was an English poet and antiquary.
Briton Ferry
…alternative Welsh name unused today is Rhyd y Brython, a direct translation of Briton Ferry. The Normans referred to the River crossing as La Brittonne and Leland in 1540 as Britanne Fery. Briton Ferry is on the mouth of the River Neath, where it enters Swansea Bay, and is the first river crossing along the Roman…
Line engraving by Charles Grignion the Elder (1772), purportedly taken from a bust of John Leland at All Souls College, Oxford. Sculptor Louis François Roubiliac (d. 1762) probably created the original bust.
John Leland, by Thomas Charles Wageman after Hans Holbein the Younger
Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger from Leland's Naenia (1542), showing Sir Thomas Wyatt