Jersey Marine is a village in

Neath Port Talbot Neath Port Talbot ( cy, Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough in the south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf ...

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, Wales, UK located about east of Swansea. It falls within the

Coedffranc West Coedffranc West is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. As of May 2022, it is represented by two councillors from the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Coedffranc West is bounded by the wards of Llansamlet and Bonymaen of Swan ...

ward. Jersey Marine is centered on a main road formed by Ashleigh Terrace, coming from a junction with the

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(Fabian Way), which curves to the east along New Road leading to

Llandarcy Llandarcy is a village near Neath in the Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, and was the site of the first oil refinery in the United Kingdom. It was originally designed as a garden village to house the workers for the BP refinery built b ...

. The A483, Fabian Way, is normally considered the gateway into

Swansea City Centre Swansea city centre in Swansea, Wales, contains the main shopping, leisure and nightlife district in Swansea. The city centre covers much of the Castle ward including the area around Oxford Street, Castle Square, and the Quadrant Shopping Centr ...

, therefore it is mistakenly thought that the area is part of the city of Swansea despite the village being part of Neath Port Talbot. The local primary school in the village is Crymlyn

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. Secondary school age children attend school in Neath, not Swansea. The village includes the Pant y Sais Nature Reserve, a

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area featuring a circular boardwalk which connects with the tow path of the

Tennant Canal The Neath and Tennant Canals are two independent but linked canals in South Wales that are usually regarded as a single canal. The Neath Canal was opened from Glynneath to Melincryddan, to the south of Neath, in 1795 and extended to Giant's Gr ...

. A new distribution centre for Amazon.co.uk is sited south of the village on the site of a former cable manufacturing plant. It opened on 16 April 200

Jersey Marine tower

Jersey Marine is most famous to locals for its tower. This is a four-storey octagonal tower that was built in the

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. The tower was designed to provide a panoramic view of the surrounding area through its ''

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''. It was built as part of the development of Jersey Marine as a holiday resort. Having fallen into disrepair, there were proposals to restore the ''camera obscura'' but it was eventually fully restored in 2006 as part of The Towers Hotel and is now used as a bridal suite.

Nearest places

Crymlyn Burrows Crymlyn Burrows () is an area of land in Wales, UK to the east of Swansea city centre, and south of Crymlyn Bog. It is bounded by Jersey Marine Beach to the south and the River Neath to the east. The land west of Baldwin's Crescent falls withi ...

* Crymlyn Bog *

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Geograph: Pictures of Jersey Marine area
Villages in Neath Port Talbot {{NeathPortTalbot-geo-stub