Maesteg

Maesteg is a town and network in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. Maesteg lies on the northernmost quit of the Llynfi Valley, close to the border with Neath Port Talbot. In 2011, Maesteg had a populace of 20,612. The English translation of Maesteg is 'fair subject'. Historically part of Glamorgan, the growth of the city started with the hole of ironworks within the 1820s, and 1830s. Once a coal mining place, the remaining pit closed in 1985.

With the decline of the coal industry and, extra recently, the closure of one big factory producing cosmetics and some other production automobile additives, the valley has emerge as a residential/dormitory vicinity for the Port Talbot, Bridgend and Cardiff journey to paintings areas. 1,867 out of 20,702 of the town's populace communicate Welsh with 27.9% of 3-15 year olds talking the language. It is one of the few regions of Wales wherein the traditional Mari Lwyd remains celebrated all through Christmas.

Margam Castle is a big Victorian generation usa house, constructed in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot 1803–1890. It become built over a 10 years duration, from 1830 to 1840, on a website which had been occupied for some 4,000 years and which from the eleventh century until the dissolution of the monasteries was an abbey. Although known as a "castle", the building is simply a huge secure country residence, one among many "mock" castles constructed in the 19th century at some point of the Gothic Revival..