Also located in the village is Neath Golf Club, the course where past Ryder Cup player and captain Brian Huggett played as a junior.
Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, in the Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales
Powell now led his forces to seize Swansea, then Neath before advancing into the Vale of Glamorgan with Royalists rising in support en route, with Cardiff as their aim.
Stuart Robbins (2 November 1976 – 12 April 2010) was a British basketball player from Neath in South Wales, who played at centre for the London Towers and Thames Valley in the British Basketball League and professionally in Germany, Belgium and in Limerick, Ireland.
Tonna, Neath, a village in Wales, part of the county borough Neath Port Talbot
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In the 2011 game against Neath in Wales, some supporters of 2010's Europa League opponents Motherwell also made their way to support the club.
The team secured the title after a 22-13 win over Neath RFC at the Brewery Field with two games to spare, tries from Sililo Martens, Jon Thiel and Gareth Cull, with the latter scoring a drop goal from 35 meters to seal the victory and the first title in over 20 years.
In 2002 Calor opened 12 Customer Operations Centres at Grangemouth, Port Clarence, Stoney Stanton, Elland, Ellesmere Port, Coryton, Cranbrook, Saxham, Fawley, Neath and Newbury.
Due to a slight facial similarity, being well built, with often a deep tan, Peter Hain, the Labour MP for Neath since 1991, has been labelled by newspaper columnists as the Cuprinol Kid.
There is a dedicated express bus route to the east of Neath Road, which is used by buses serving the Landore Park and Ride site and the 'bendy bus' service from Singleton Hospital to Morriston Hospital.
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Neath Road is a busy thoroughfare used by buses and cars to travelling between central Swansea and the northern suburbs in and around Morriston and Llansamlet.
This led Mackworth to begin smelting copper at Neath, but found himself in direct competition with Sir Edward Mansel, who owned coal mining in the neighbouring areas.
Neath were a rising force in Welsh rugby in the 1980s, finishing as runners up in the 1984 Welsh Cup final against Cardiff.
Keevy then played in the wins over Cambridge University and a joint Neath/Aberavon side, but a recovered Buchler was back for the Scotland encounter.
It is notable for Neath Hill Local Centre designed by Wayland Tunley as being one of the few local centres in Milton Keynes built to straddle the grid roads rather than being embedded within the interior of the grid square.
Ironworks were set up in the South Wales Valleys, running south from the Brecon Beacons particularly around the new town of Merthyr Tydfil, with iron production later spreading westwards to the hinterlands of Neath and Swansea where anthracite coal was already being mined.
Neath Abbey was established in 1129 AD when Sir Richard de Granville, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, gave 8,000 acres (32 km²) of his estate in Glamorgan, Wales to Savigniac monks from western Normandy.
On 13 July 2010, Neath announced the double signing of two marquee players in readiness for the 2010–11 season, former Swansea City favourites Kristian O'Leary and Lee Trundle.
Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief of The Independent, began his career on the Neath Guardian, as did BBC World Service business correspondent Steve Evans, who reported live from the World Trade Center during the September 11 terrorist attacks, and Daily Express rugby writer Steve Bale.
Pontneddfechan ("bridge over the Little Neath" in Welsh) is a village in the Vale of Neath in the far south of Powys, Wales.
Rhys Taylor, footballer born in Neath on 7 April 1990 who plays for Chelsea
Born in Neath, West Glamorgan, Taylor played mainly in the Chelsea Reserves and the Youth Team but occasionally got called to sit on the bench when another goalkeeper got injured.
A smaller tributary, the River Clydach, flows southward through the village of Bryn-coch to join the Neath in Neath town centre.
It is considered to be cognate with the river names Nidd (in North Yorkshire), Nith (in Dumfries and Galloway) and Neath (in South Wales) and arises from a supposed nido meaning 'gleaming'.
Sedd el Bahr is mentioned in the classic Irish song The Foggy Dew, second verse: "It was better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud el Bar."