Neath Port Talbot · Village
Part of the Neath, Port Talbot & the Neath Valley area guide
Ystalyfera
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Ystalyfera
51.7686, -3.7826
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Ystalyfera facts
Ystalyfera is a Gower-edge settlement of lanes, hedge banks, farmland and older stone boundaries. It is part of the Neath, Port Talbot & the Neath Valley area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- Ironmaster James Palmer Budd built the ironworks in 1838; by the 1850s it had Britain's second-largest bank of blast furnaces.
- The village stands on the River Tawe in the upper Swansea Valley, crossed by the Swansea Canal aqueduct.
- Sits on or close to the Gower Peninsula, the United Kingdom's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956.
- Field boundaries, lanes and older stone walls give the area its long-established rural pattern.
General local background, kept separate from the plant guidance below.
Local habitat
Where to look
Hedge banks, garden edges, lanes, ditches and nearby fields are the main places where invasive or escaping garden plants can establish around Ystalyfera.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
