Baglan, Glamorgan

Description
Baglan, a parish in Glamorgan, on the E side of the mouth of Neath river, 1 1/2 mile SE of Briton Ferry, and 3 1/2 S of Neath. It comprises the hamlets of Lower Baglan and Upper Baglan. The post town of Lower Baglan is Briton Ferry; of Upper Baglan, Port Talbot. Acreage, 4111, of which 30 are water; population of Lower Baglan, 459; of Higher Baglan, 165. The scenery possesses much beauty and some romance, and the higher grounds command very brilliant views. Baglan House, the property of the Earl of Jersey, though without attraction as a building, possesses interest as once the resort of Mason, wlio wrote here his elegy£ " Coventry is dead! attend the strain, Daughters of Albion."