Port Talbot is pretty much famous for its Steel Works and not much else, although it has quite a nice beach in Aberafan and a bloody good rugby team, the Aberafan Wizards. Wait, you say, that’s Aberafan, not Port Talbot. A brief history will suffice to disabuse you of that notion.
The town of Port Talbot is first mentioned in the history books in 1837 as the name of the new docks built by the Talbot family to the South-East of the Rover Afan, but as the conurbation surrounding the docks grew, swallowing up the villages of Baglan, Margam and Aberafan, the name came to mean the whole area.