Llantwit Cottage, Llantwit, Neath
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Llantwit Cottage, Llantwit, Neath
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 5 May 2016
Set below the B4434 Llantwit Road. The Visit Neath Port Talbot website records that in 1846 Alfred Russel Wallace persuaded his brother John to move from London to find work with him in Neath. Their mother and sister Frances also wished to join them so Wallace rented a cottage in Neath next to St Illtyd's Church less than a mile from the centre of Neath. The cottage was Llantwit Cottage where Wallace stayed until he embarked on his journey to the Amazon with Henry Bates in 1848. Wallace described this cottage as having a nice little garden and yard going down to the Neath Canal, immediately beyond which was the River Neath, with a pretty view across the valley to Cadoxton and the fine Drymmau Mountain.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.666917
Longitude
-3.791494