Cymmer (Afan Valley)

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Cymmer (Welsh: Cymer) is a small village in South Wales, set on a hillside in the Afan Valley near the confluence of the River Afan and the River Corrwg. In 2001, Cymmer had a population of 2,883.^[1]

Cymmer can also be spelled "Cymer" with the omission of one "m." Both spellings are considered correct, however. The spelling variance is explained by "Cymmer" being the English language version, and "Cymer" the Welsh language one. The word "Cymmer" translates from Welsh into English as "joining place of two rivers", and it is here that the Afon Corrwg and the Afon Afan meet, to flow onward as the River Afan until entering the sea at Aberavon/Port Talbot.

1 Amenities
2 Government and politics
3 External Links
4 References

[edit] Amenities

Local public houses include The Refreshment Rooms (the preserved Great Western Railway station) and a working men's club called The Coronation Club. Local amenities include a library, a community swimming pool, a sports hall, primary school and secondary schools, a police station and fire station. There is also an exhibition on the history of the area held near the petrol filling station. The exhibition is owned and maintained by a local newsagent.^[2] Cymmer has two churches, although the usage of the two is virtually nil.^{[citation needed]} One of the churches has now been boarded up and padlocked to stop youths entering and vandalising the site.

[edit] Government and politics

**Cymmer**

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for SS860961
Geography
Total population	2,883 (2001 census)
Administration
Local council:	Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Number of councillors:	1
Nation:	Wales
Post office and telephone
PostCode(s):	SA13
Dialling code:	+44-1639
Politics
Welsh Assembly:	Aberavon
UK Parliament:	Aberavon
European Parliament:	Wales

The Cymmer electoral ward is coterminus with the village in Neath Port Talbot county borough. Cymmer includes some or all of the villages of Cymmer, Duffryn and Croeserw in the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. Cymmer is bounded by the wards of Resolven to the north; Glyncorrwg to the northeast; Gwynfi to the east; Blaengarw, Caerau and Maesteg West of Bridgend county borough to the south east; Bryn and Cwmavon to the southwest; and Pelenna to the west.

The ward is set in a densely forested upland area with steep sided river valleys cut through by the Rivers Afan and Corrwg. Patches of open moorland exist to the nort and south of the ward.

In the 2008 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 48.23%. The results were: