Llandarcy is a village near Neath in Neath Port Talbot county, Wales. Neath (Castell-nedd is a Town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK with a Geography The majority of the population of Neath Port Talbot resides in the developed areas along corridors surrounding the M4 Motorway / South Wales Main Line It lies near the busy M4 Motorway/A465 junction, Junction 43. The M4 motorway is a Motorway in Great Britain linking London with Wales. The A465 is a major Road in south Wales. It is more commonly known as the Heads of the Valleys Road because it joins together the north ends The village was newly built to house the workers for the petroleum oil refinery built by BP Oil in the 1930s to cater for the increasing demand for petrol with the increase of the number of motor cars. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. BP plc, previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest global Energy company, a multinational oil company (" Oil major
Crymlyn Bog lies downstream of the refinery and was always a most important wet-land area and has for many years been designated as a Site of Scientific Interest of international significance. Crymlyn Bog (Cors Crymlyn is a Nature reserve and a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest of international significance near Swansea, south A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. The cessation of most activities at the refinery has removed some damaging sources of pollution that were seriously impacting the biological communities of the bog. Water pollution is the contamination of Water bodies such as Lakes Rivers Oceans and Groundwater caused by human activities
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History
BP's first oil refinery was built at Grangemouth in Scotland with the site of Llandarcy being chosen for its proximity to Swansea docks where crude oil could be transported by sea from the Middle East combined with extensive rail transportation. Grangemouth is a town and former Burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland, and formerly in the County of Stirling. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Swansea Docks ( ABP Name Port of Swansea) is an Atlantic shipping port in Swansea, south Wales. Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit This was an important target for the German bombers during World War II.
The village comprised approximately 250 houses constructed of stone with a community centre and local shop. Many workers moved from Scotland to bring their expertise from the established refinery at Grangemouth to open the facility. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A refinery is composed of a group of Chemical engineering unit processes and Unit operations used for Refining certain materials or converting Grangemouth is a town and former Burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland, and formerly in the County of Stirling. Over the last three decades the operations at the refinery were gradually been scaled back first to a lubrication oil facility and currently simply to a bitumen plant.
The village is named after William Knox D'Arcy, founding director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). The entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy ( October 11, 1849 - May 1, 1917) was one of the principal founders of the oil and Petrochemical The Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( APOC) was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. APOC is the forerunner to BP. The village was sold to the local municipal authority in 1974.
Part of the site of the refinery is now occupied by offices of the Environment Agency Wales. Environment Agency Wales is an Assembly Sponsored Public Body.
The village is known notoriously, especially to local people, for the murders of school girls Pauline Floyd, Geraldine Hughes and Sandra Newton in September 1973. The murderer was discovered years later by DNA evidence by South Wales Police to be Joe Kappen who was a bouncer who worked in local clubs and pubs in Neath. Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) is a Nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known South Wales Police (Heddlu De Cymru is one of the four Territorial police forces in Wales. He died on 17 June 1990 at the age of 49 of lung cancer. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Lung cancer is a Disease of uncontrolled Cell growth in tissues of the Lung.
Sport
BP the company operating the refinery also operated a sports club. The club was originally designated for use or BP workers. Gradually, members of BP workers' families were allows to use the facility. Today the sports club has been re-developed into a comprehensive sports club. Sports facilities include: tennis courts, swimming pool, gynmasium, playing field for cricket, football, archery etc.
Future plans
The disused land from the scaling down of the oil refinery has been distributed to various parties for new use. Plans are afoot to re-develop some of the brownfield land into a village. The Prince's Trust is an interested party in this development, to develop the area as an "Urban Village" in the same vain as the Poundbury village project. Poundbury is an experimental New town — or more correctly a new Village — on the outskirts of Dorchester in the County of Dorset [1]
The working name for the new village at the refinery site is Coed Darcy. The site is expected to contain 3 new primary schools, one new secondary school, health and fitness facilities, about 4,000 new homes and a new access road to the Fabian Way. The A483 is a major road in the United Kingdom, running from Swansea in Wales to Chester in England.
References
- ^ Llandarcy Urban Village Project (English). The Civic Trust for Wales. Retrieved on 2007-12-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city
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