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Features a lake and historic landscaped gardens in a setting in the lower Vale of Neath.
The Gnoll Country Park is a park in Wales. It is an early-18th-century landscaped garden covering over 100 acres (0.40 km2) in the Vale of Neath, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in south Wales. The park is designated Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
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a traditional Victorian-style park.
Insubstantial ruins, but worth a look if in the area.
One of the most famous waterfalls of Wales, the Aberdulais Falls can be found near the village of Aberdulais in the lower Neath Valley. The waterfall area is now a National Trust property who operate a visitor centre. The waterfall exhibition features a working waterwheel.
Built in 1130, it was once described as the fairest abbey in all of Wales, but now only ruins remain.
Found near the village of Crynant in the Dulais Valley, it features a permanent exhibition of the Cefn Coed Colliery, once the deepest anthracite coal mine in the world.
The 80 ft high falls are part of the Melincourt Brook, a tributary of the River Neath.