More needs to be done to promote Neath Abbey as ... it's off an industrial estate. "How can we try to get them to promote what was once the largest abbey in Wales?" The council - which last ...

Its population of about 500,000 was, however, gaining an expanding industrial base ... copper smelting in Neath and Swansea and coalmining in west Glamorgan and Flintshire increased substantially.

For a solidly industrial town ... silhouette of the ruined abbey, once described as the fairest in all Wales, is spine-chilling at twilight. The nearby Neath and Tennant Canal is perfect for ...

Hidden away behind an industrial estate, next to the early 19th century Tennant Canal, Neath Abbey is tucked into a busy landscape and is all too easily missed. Yet, if you pass this monument by ...