Searching for "GLYN NEATH"

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    Place name County Entry Source
    ABERPERGWM Glamorgan Glyn-Neath r. station. Post Town, Glyn Neath under Neath. The scenery of vale and mountain, with the vale of the Pergwm Imperial
    BLAENGWRACH Glamorgan Neath, on the Vale of Neath railway, at Glyn-Neath station, 9 miles NE of Neath Post Town, Glyn-Neath Imperial
    CAPEL-COELBREN Brecknockshire Glyn-Neath r. station, and 12 NNE of Neath. Post Town, Ystradgynlas, under Swansea. Statistics, with the parish. The scenery Imperial
    GLYN-CORRWG Glamorgan GLYN-CORRWG , a hamlet and a parish in Neath district, Glamorgan. The hamlet lies on the river Corwg, a little Imperial
    Glyn Neath Glamorgan Glyn Neath , vil. with ry. sta., near N. border of Glamorgan, 12 miles NE. of Neath; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank Bartholomew
    GLYN-NEATH Glamorgan GLYN-NEATH , a hamlet in Glamorgan; in the upper part of the vale of Neath, and on the Vale of Neath Imperial
    NEATH (The) Brecknockshire
    Glamorgan
    NEATH (The) , a river of Brecon and Glamorgan. Itrises under the mountain Ban Gyhyrich, in Forest-fawr, near the Brecknock Beacons; collects several rapid and tumultuous headstreams among the Forest-fawr mountains, and downward to Pont-Neath-Vaughan, at the boundary with Glamorgan, and about 10 miles south-south-westward from its highest source; becomes the Neath proper at Pont-Neath-Vaughan; and proceedsthence about 15 miles south-westward, past Aberpergwm, Glyn Imperial
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