Baglan (Neath Port Talbot)
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 37 ′ N , 3 ° 49 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SS746924 | ||
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| Residents | 6819 (as of March 2011) | ||
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| Post town | Port Talbot (SA12) | ||
| prefix | 01639 | ||
| Part of the country | Wales | ||
| region | South wales | ||
Baglan is a village in south Wales on Baglan Bay of the same name. It was first mentioned as Bagelan in 1199 and named after Saint Bagelan, a sixth century hermit . The place has some historic buildings like Baglan House, St. Catharine's Church and the remains of St. Baglan's Church.
geography
Baglan lies on a slope and is surrounded by the Mynydd-y-Gaer hills in the northeast and Mynydd Dinas in the southeast. In the southwest is the marshland , the moors and the Bay of Baglan. Briton Ferry, Aberavon and Sandfields are nearby .
history
The first traces of settlements date back to the Bronze Age with the burial mound of Twyn Disgwylfa on Mynydd Dinas and a round grave in the hill fort (ramparts) of Buarth-y-Gaer. There is also an Iron Age rampart on the surrounding hills of Mynydd-y-Gaer. The foothills of the Roman road Via Julia most likely ran through the village; a milestone at the intersection between Old Road and Albion Road, which was erroneously assigned to the Romans , comes from Pyle according to recent findings. Later, during the Dark Ages , a church was founded on this site, which is indicated by some early Christian stone finds, for example the Cross of Brancu from the 9th to 10th centuries; it is now in the sacristy of the Church of St. Catharine. The inscription on the cross could be a dedication for Brancuf, but it can also be interpreted as Brancu f (ecit) (“created by Brancu”) or as Brancu, followed by a Christ monogram . The name Brancu is preceded by a simple Latin cross .
During the Middle Ages, the church dedicated to St. Baglan was rebuilt on the same site. In 1954 the church burned down; ruins of her still exist in the churchyard of St. Catharine. The Church of St. Catharine, consecrated in 1882, was designed by Welsh architect John Prichard, a representative of neo-Gothic architecture.
There are also two medieval castle ruins within the parish .
Castell Bolan was a moth on Mynydd Dinas. It is closer to the village of Cwmafan than to Baglan and its remains are now covered by trees and are no longer accessible. The Baglan House, Plas Baglan, is located above the Baglan Brook and is also heavily overgrown and no longer accessible. Although originally intended as a manor house , according to literature it is a "strongly fortified site, more of a castle than a moat, ... a brick castle that lasted until the 13th century" ("a strongly fortified site, a castle rather than a moated site, ... a masonry castle that existed by the 13th century "). During the 15th and 16th centuries, Plas Baglan was used as a manor house and it was one of the seats of the Villiers family (Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey ).
Further foundation walls of buildings from the Middle Ages exist on the hills behind the village.
politics
Baglan is an electoral district in the county of Neath Port Talbot , consisting of Baglan and Baglan Bay; the ward belongs to the constituency of Aberavon. Baglan is part of the Welsh community named after him (Welsh cymuned ) Baglan, which corresponds to a municipality in Germany. The ward, which is part of the upheld county of West Glamorgan , had a total of 6,654 residents in 2001 and a population of 6,819 in 2011.
In the local council elections on May 4, 2017, Peter Richards, Carol Clement and Susan Renkes were appointed council members ("Councils").
Transport and economy
Baglan is located on the M4 motorway (part of European route 30 ) and on the A48 trunk road.
The station , the Baglan Railway Station opened on June 2, 1996 , is located on the South Wales Main Line and is served regionally by the transport company Transport for Wales / Trafnidiaeth Cymru . There are trains to Cardiff (Cardiff Central Railway Station) and Swansea (Swansea Railway Station).
In the 19th century, Baglan stood for the export of coal, tin products and pottery.
In the southeast of the village are now the Baglan Moors and Baglan Bay industrial areas. In 1963, BP opened a petrochemical factory here , which benefited from its proximity to the Llandarcy oil refinery . In 1968 BP Baglan Bay was one of the largest petrochemical plants in Europe and had over 2,500 employees at the economic height of 1974. The economic change led to the gradual closure of the site between 1994 and 2004.
After the closure of BP's isopropanol factory, the 750 m² (180 acre ) Baglan Energy Park was built on the same site . There is the Baglan Bay Power Station , built in September 2003 for £ 300 million ; Here is one with natural gas -powered combined cycle with a capacity of 525 megawatts . The power plant built by General Electric was sold to a group of financial investors around the Australian investment banking and securities trading company Macquarie in October 2012 .
After the power station was built, numerous industrial companies and research institutions, such as Swansea University , settled here. In September 2006, a paper mill of the Italian Sofidel Group opened.
St. Modwen Properties acquired 1,050 acres of land on Baglan Bay from BP in November 2009. The largest photovoltaic park in Wales opened there in early 2014 ; it comprises 20,000 solar panels on an area of 1.2 km² (300 acres) at a cost of £ 15 million.
Sport, leisure and culture
Baglan is home to four sports clubs: Baglan Rugby Football Club (Baglan RFC), Baglan Football Club, Baglan Cricket Club and Tyn-Y-Twr Bowling Club (Captain Phillip Reese David). Baglan was home to the Harmonelles Jazz Band , formerly Baglan Blue Peters , which won the 2007 World Jazz Band Championships (Division 2); the band broke up in 2012.
sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan (1949–2017), British diplomat and politician
- Rob Brydon (born 1965), comedian, presenter, speaker and actor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 official population figures (Office for National Statistics)
- ^ The Oxford Names Companion (2002), Oxford University Press, p. 925, ISBN 0-19-860561-7
- ^ TD Breverton (2000), The Book of Welsh Saints, Glyndwr Publishing, pp. 67-68, ISBN 1-903529-01-8
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume I Part I, HMSO, p. 81. ISBN 0-11-700588-6
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume I Part II, HMSO, pp. 26, 46, 55. ISBN 0-11-700589-4
- ^ A. L. Evans (1970), The Story of Baglan, p. 18
- ^ VE Nash-Williams (1950), The Early Christian Monuments of Wales, University of Wales Press, p. 130.
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume I Part III, HMSO, p. 43. ISBN 0-11-700590-8
- ^ A. L. Evans (1970), The Story of Baglan, p. 21
- ^ PR Davies and S. Lloyd-Ferne (1990), Lost Churches of Wales and the Marches, Sutton, p. 30, ISBN 0-86299-564-7
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1991), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume III Part 1b, HMSO, p. 135
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1991), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume III Part 1b, HMSO, p. 149
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008
- ^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1982), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan Volume III Part II, HMSO, p. 32, ISBN 0-11-701141-X
- ↑ Lead Key Figures
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008
- ^ BP Closes Final Manufacturing Plant at Baglan Bay
- ↑ BAGLAN ENERGY PARK ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
