Rhiwfawr

Rhiwfawr is a small hamlet of some 40 houses in the Swansea valley. Most of the hamlet is raised high upon a ridge overlooking Cwmtwrch and most of the houses are over 900 feet above sea-level. Most of the houses date from the 1930s and were built by the local authority, then Glamorgan, now Neath Port Talbot council to house miners for a local colliery that has since been closed and returned to countryside. The hamlet has a primary school, a community hall, and a small chapel. The road is now used to get to Cwmllynfell or the Gwryhd mountain which leads to Rhyd-y-fro on the outskirts of Pontardawe.