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Port Talbot: Man, 86, dies after being hit by car • Dec. 9, 2024, 10:51 PM ET (BBC)
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Port Talbot, town, port, and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Neath Port Talbot county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), southern Wales. It is situated at the mouth of the River Afon on Swansea Bay (an embayment of the Bristol Channel) and adjoins the locality of Margam to the southeast. The town is the administrative centre of Neath Port Talbot county borough. The site of the present town was originally called Aberafan. Nearby Margam Abbey, which dominated the area during the Middle Ages, was founded in 1147 by Robert, earl of Gloucester. Modern industry began in the town in ...(100 of 241 words)

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