Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Briton Ferry

Briton Ferry, town and par. with ry. sta., W. Glamorgan, at mouth of river Neath, 2½ miles SE. of Neath, 1522 ac., pop. 6061; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Briton Ferry Road, on the opposite side of the estuary, is a sta. between Neath and Swansea.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Briton Ferry CP/Ch       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Briton Ferry

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