Welsh Family History Archive

Images of Wales

Kenfig Hill
near Pyle, Glamorgan

Photography by John Ball - 27 July 1999
(scanned from photographs taken with a Sigma SA-300 35 mm SLR camera)

The village of Kenfig Hill is located on the western slopes of Cefn Cribwr ridge, overlooking Margam Forest to the north and the great Port Talbot steelworks to the west.

Above: Kenfig Hill post office and general stores.

Above: Kenfig Hill war memorial, commemorating those who lost their
lives in the two world wars.

Above: A row of former workers' cottages in Moriah Place, Kenfig Hill.

Above: The view westwards down High Street, Kenfig Hill. The hazy outline of the
great steelworks at Port Talbot, seven miles away, can be seen on the skyline (right).

Above: The parish church of St Theodore, High Street, Kenfig Hill.

Above: A old house in High Street, Kenfig Hill.

Above: Horses quietly grazing in a field behind High Street.

Above: The view northwards towards Mynydd Margam and Margam Forest.