SKEWEN

'Skewen' () is a village in South Wales, part of Neath Port Talbot county borough. Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village - see link below. The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath Abbey Ironworks were once important industrial sites which stood close by. The ruins of Neath Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, is now in the care of CADW. Old top loading blast furnaces can also be seen at Neath Abbey. On Drummau Mountain to the north of the village is an ancient standing stone, Y Carreg Bica (or 'Maen Bradwen' which translates into English as "the white rock of betrayal). The village is the birthplace of Sir Samuel Thomas Evans (1859-1918), British judge and politician who was appointed Solicitor-General in 1908 and became the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty division in 1910. Also of the composer David John de Lloyd and singer Bonnie Tyler. Eddie Izzard, the comedian, lived in the village for a short while in his boyhood. To the south of Skewen lies the village of Llandarcy, site of the former Llandarcy oil refinery.

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★ Skewen Colliery