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ABERAVON

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ABERAVON , a contributory See also:

parliamentary and municipal See also:borough of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Avon, near its mouth in See also:Swansea See also:Bay, 11 m. E.S.E. of Swansea and 170 M. from See also:London by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 7553. It has a station on the See also:Rhondda and Swansea Bay railway and is also on the See also:main See also:South Wales See also:line of the See also:Great Western, whose station, however, is at See also:Port See also:Talbot, See also:half a mile distant, on the eastern See also:side of the Avon. The valley of the Avon, which is only some three See also:miles See also:long, has been from about 184o a See also:place of much metallurgical activity. There are tinplate and See also:engineering See also:works within the borough. At Cwmavon, 1 a m. to the See also:north-See also:east, are large See also:copper-smelting works established in 1838, acquired two years later by the See also:governor and See also:Company of the Copper Miners of See also:England, but now worked by the Rio Tinto Copper Company. There are also See also:iron, See also:steel and, tinplate works both at Cwmavon and at Port Talbot, which, when: it consisted only of-docks, was appropriately known as Aberavon Port. The See also:town derives its name from the See also:river Avon (corrupted from Avan), which also gave its name to a See also:medieval lordship. On the See also:Norman See also:conquest at Glamorgan, Caradoc, the eldest son of the defeated See also:prince, Lestyn ab Gwrgan, continued to hold this lordship, and for the See also:defence of the passage of the river built here a See also:castle whose See also:foundations are still traceable in a See also:field near the See also:churchyard. His descendants (who from the 13th See also:century onwards styled themselves De Avan or D'Avene) established, under the See also:protection of the castle, a chartered town, which in 1372 received a further See also:charter from See also:Edward Le De-See also:Spenser, into whose See also:family the lordship had come on an See also:exchange of lands.

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modern times these' charters were not acted upon, the town being deemed a borough by See also:prescription, but in 1861 it was incorporated under the Municipal 'corporations See also:Act. Since 1832 it has belonged to the Swansea parliamentary dis-trict of boroughs, "uniting with Kenfig, Loughor, See also:Neath and Swansea to return one member; but in 1885 the older portion of Swansea. was given a See also:separate member.

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