Skewen Welsh:Sgiwen
A view over Skewen
Skewen Location withinNeath Port Talbot
Population	8,500
OS grid reference	SS727974
Principal area	Neath Port Talbot
Preserved county	West Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEATH
Postcode district	SA10
Dialling code	01792
Police	South Wales
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Aberavon
List of places UK Wales Neath Port Talbot 51°39′39″N3°50′24″W / 51.6609°N 3.8399°W /51.6609; -3.8399

Skewen (Welsh:Sgiwen) is a village within thecounty borough ofNeath Port Talbot, inWales. The village is served bySkewen railway station and has its ownrugby club.

Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number ofcollieries around the village (see link below). The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath Abbey Ironworks were once important industrial sites which stood close by. Old top-loadingblast furnaces can also be seen atNeath Abbey. To the south of Skewen lies the village ofLlandarcy, the site of the country's firstoil refinery. The site of this former oil refinery is now being developed as an urban village calledCoed Darcy, a development which was promoted at its start by thePrince of Wales's Foundation for the Built Environment.^{[citation needed]}

The ruins ofNeath Abbey, a formerCistercianmonastery, are now in the care ofCadw. OnMynydd Drumau to the north of the village is an ancient standing stone known as the Carreg Bica (or 'Maen Bradwen').

• The village is the birthplace of SirSamuel Thomas Evans (1859–1918), British judge and politician who was appointedSolicitor-General in 1908 and became thePresident of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division in 1910.
• Skewen is also the birthplace of internationally successful singerBonnie Tyler and Welsh composerDavid John de Lloyd (1883-1948).
• ComedianEddie Izzard lived in the village for a short time during childhood.^[1]
• The grandparents of the legendary American entrepreneurHoward Hughes are believed to have lived in Skewen in the 1930s.
• The notorious murderer, Elizabeth "Betty" Maude Jones, née Baker (1926-?), was born in Skewen. In October 1944, she and an American paratrooper named Karl Hulten (1922-1944), sometimes branded "the Blackout Bonnie and Clyde", carried out a series of brutal crimes that culminated in the murder of a London taxi driver. Both she and Hulten were sentenced to death, but Jones was reprieved by the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison.

• Neath Abbey
• Llandarcy
• Birchgrove

• Skewen Colliery
• www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Skewen and surrounding area

• Villages in Neath Port Talbot

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