Port Talbot
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.jpg) The elevated section of the M4 above Port Talbot and the steelworks in the distance |
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 Port Talbot
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| Port Talbot shown within Neath Port Talbot | |
| Population | 37,276 |
| OS grid reference | SS755895 |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PORT TALBOT |
| Postcode district | SA12, SA13 |
| Dialling code | 01639 |
| Police | South Wales |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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| Welsh Assembly | |
Port Talbot (/pərˈtɔːlbət/ or /pərˈtælbət/) is a town in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It had a population of 37,276 in 2011. It is best known as the home of the Port Talbot Steelworks, one of biggest steelworks in the world, which currently employs an estimated 10% of the town's population. The steelworks has for many years been under threat of closure.
Modern Port Talbot is a town formed from the merging of multiple villages, including Baglan and Margam, and centred on Aberafan on the west side of the river Afan. 'Port Talbot' first appears in 1837 as the name of the new docks built on the east side of the river by the Talbot family. The name became applied to the emerging conurbation.
The earliest evidence of humans in the Port Talbot area has been found on the side of Mynydd Margam where Bronze Age farming ditches can be found from 4,000 BC. There were Iron Age hill forts on Mynydd Dinas, Mynydd Margam, Mynydd Emroch and other nearby hills. Mynydd Hawdef contains remains of an ancient Iron Age village. The Margam deer herd was first introduced by the Romans.
Ffynnon Pedr is a sacred spring or well which flows from the hillside through a stone culvert 0.4m square in Margam. It is possibly the water supply for Margam Abbey 0.75 km to the East.
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