Skewen
Skewen is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales.
Skewen is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station and has its own rugby club.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Skewen
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Neath Castle
Neath Castle is a Norman castle located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Its construction was begun by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the nominal Lord of Glamorgan, at a date estimated between 1114 and 1130.
2.6 km · castle in Neath, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 02The Gnoll
The Gnoll in Neath, Wales is a sports ground, with a capacity of 6,000. It is used primarily for rugby union, rugby league, and cricket, in addition to having previously been used for association football.
3 km · rugby stadium in Neath · Wikipedia - 03NPTC Group
The NPTC Group of Colleges is a further education college in Wales, with campuses throughout Neath Port Talbot and Powys. It was formed following the merger of Neath Port Talbot College and Coleg Powys on 1 August 2013.
1.9 km · Further Education college · Wikipedia - 04Gnoll Estate Country Park
The Gnoll Country Park is a park in Wales. It is an early-18th-century landscaped garden covering over 100 acres in the Vale of Neath, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in south Wales.
3.7 km · park in the Vale of Neath, Wales · Wikipedia - 05Swing Bridge, River Neath
The Neath River Swing Bridge is a swing bridge over the River Neath, in Wales. It carried the former Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway near Skewen.
1.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Skewen
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 45 km · Bristol (BRS), 84 km · Birmingham (BHX), 168 km
- Stations
- Neath, 2.1 km · Briton Ferry, 2.4 km · Coedffranc, 2 km · Dyffryn Clydach, 1.5 km · Blaenhonddan, 3.5 km
- Cardiff → Skewen50 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–7
- Bristol → Skewen89 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Skewen162 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Skewen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Skewen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPontardawe lies at the crossroads of the A4067 road, which runs the length of the Swansea Valley and on to Sennybridge on the A40, and the A474 from Briton Ferry and Neath to Ammanford.
From Wikivoyage: Clydach and Pontardawe, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in Skewen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Skewen
Skewen is 8 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Pentre Dwrvillage in Swansea, Wales, UK3.8 km
- Coed Darcyvillage in Wales2 km