Michaelstone super Avon, Glamorgan

Description
Michaelstone-super-Avon, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands on the river Avon, 1 1/2 mile NE of Aberavon, and 2 miles NE of Port Talbot station on the G.W.R., and is a considerable but much scattered place. The parish consists of the townships of Lower Michaelstone and Upper Michaelstone. Lower Michaelstone includes the village of Cwmavon, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Port Talbot. Acreage, 1019 ; population, 5280. Upper Michaelstone includes the hamlet of Pontrhydyfen, which has a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Cwmavon. Acreage, 4088; population, 829. The surface is hilly, and the rocks include coal, iron ore, and fireclay. There are extensive iron, steel, tinplate, and copper works at Cwmavon. The living is a vicarage, united with a chapelry of All Saints, in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £300 with residence. The church of St Michael is ancient, and has been enlarged and restored. All Saints is a chapel of ease, erected in 1855. There are Baptist, Congregational, Calvinistic Methodist, Wesleyan, and Bible Christian chapels.