Waymarker beside the path above the Afan Valley
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Waymarker beside the path above the Afan Valley
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 16 Aug 2011
Standing here and imagining what the landscape may once have looked like before the mines came I am reminded of a few lines of Idris Davies' Gwalia Deserta (1938); 'And the landscape of Gwalia stained for all time By the bloody hands of progress'.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.643272
Longitude
-3.68173