Neath Port Talbot · Green space
Part of the Neath, Port Talbot & the Neath Valley area guide
Margam Country Park
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Margam Country Park
51.5633, -3.7306
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Margam Country Park facts
Margam Country Park is a managed green space in Swansea with woodland edges, paths and mown and unmown ground side by side. It is part of the Neath, Port Talbot & the Neath Valley area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- Cistercian monks founded Margam Abbey in 1147; the Mansel family took the estate after the 1536 Dissolution.
- The park holds Tudor-Gothic Margam Castle and one of Britain's largest eighteenth-century Orangeries.
- Open to the public and maintained as green space within the City and County of Swansea.
- Mixed woodland, grassland and damp hollows here support birds, insects and small mammals.
General local background, kept separate from the plant guidance below.
Local habitat
Where to look
Woodland edges, paths, damp hollows, unmanaged banks and garden boundaries are the main places where invasive or escaping garden plants can establish around Margam Country Park.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
