Neath is a market town and community situated in the Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a population of 19,258 in 2011. Historically in Glamorgan, the town is located on the River Neath, seven miles east-northeast of Swansea.
Image: A rooftop view of Neath geograph.org.uk 1618067
Image: The Parade, Neath geograph.org.uk 2597023
Image: Neath Abbey (5541)
Neath Castle
Until 1974, Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, was an administrative county in the south of Wales, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. Originally an early medieval petty kingdom of varying boundaries known in Welsh as Morgannwg, which was then invaded and taken over by the Normans as the Lordship of Glamorgan. The area that became known as Glamorgan was both a rural, pastoral area, and a conflict point between the Norman lords and the Welsh princes. It was defined by a large concentration of castles.
Parc Cwm long cairn a Neolithic chambered tomb on the Gower Peninsula
St Lythans burial chamber a Neolithic portal dolmen in the Vale of Glamorgan
Tribes of Wales at the time of the Roman invasion (The modern border with England is also shown)
Caerphilly castle, c. 1812