I’d seen a few views of Port Talbot taken from the hills that overlook the town so wanted to go and have a look at the view myself. My contact who knew the area well warned me that the path up from the town was steep and boy was he right! After a good number of steps from the town under the M4, the next section is a paved road that serves a house, and is by some margin the steepest tarmaced road I’ve come across. It must be difficult in wet weather and impassable in snow and ice. But on a mild overcast day in February there were no such problems underfoot, it was just hilariously steep, thankfully the grassy footpath thereafter was a relatively gentle incline by comparison.

Anywhere along the path offered great panoramic views of the town, but the light was disappointing so the photographs are little more than records of the view. But they are views that will soon fade from memory as the clouds of steam will likely be no more once the blast furnaces go out of service later in 2024 so I’m glad I’ve got them.

I composed this vertically so that I could make a feature of the towns streets and there proximity to the steelworks. They’re not as close as the suburb of Margam in my previous post but the steelworks still dominates the town landscape.