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Pant-y-Swan school was founded in 1844 which was located on a site alongside the present Swan Cottage at the junction of the Old Road and Crawford Road, Baglan. It is believed to have been financed by the Llewellyn family.
The school building no longer exists. Pant-y-Swan school was open to pupils until the National School opened in 1873.
There are no known photographs of Pant y Swan school. Here is a map of Baglan from 1899. You can see that Pant y Swan school was located on Old Baglan Road.
Records show that the Assistant Commissioner for the Hundred of Neath (which included the parish of Baglan Lower) was David Williams. The record shows that David Williams visited the National School in the parish of Baglan in 1847: "Parish of Baglan. I visited this school on the 5th of March. The room was most inconveniently crowded, and full of smoke. The master was absent. There was a fair supply of scriptural print upon the walls, maps of England and Palestine, and coloured prints of the sheep, lion and elephant. There was also a clock, which I have found to be a most rare item of school furniture." He then described the result of hearing the boys and girls read passages from the Bible. He asked the children questions on these passages and explained "they were very slow in apprehending."
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