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Aberavon is a town in Wales, United Kingdom. The town derives its name from the river
Avon (corrupted from Afan which is the welsh word for raspberry), which also gave
its name to a medieval lordship. Today it is essentially a district of Port Talbot,
covering the central and south western part of the town.
Aberavon is also the name
of an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, and it
is also the Welsh name for Port Talbot.
Aberavon village hosted the National Eisteddfod
in 1932 and 1966.
History
On the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, Caradoc, the eldest
son of the defeated prince, Iestyn ab Gwrgant, continued to hold this lordship, and
for the defence of the passage of the river built a castle whose foundations now
lie underneath the streets around St Mary's church. His descendants (who from the
13th century onwards styled themselves De Avan or D'Avene) established, under line
protection of the castle, a chartered town, which in 1372 received a further charter
from Edward Le Despenser, into whose family the lordship had come on an exchange
of lands. In modern times these charters were not acted upon, the town being deemed
a borough by prescription, but in 1861 it was incorporated under the Municipal Corporations
Act. From 1832 it belonged to the Swansea parliamentary district of boroughs, uniting
with Kenfig, Loughor, Neath and Swansea to return one member; later it acquired its
own MP, the most famous to hold the constituency having been Ramsay MacDonald.
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