Pontardawe is a town and a community in the Swansea Valley in Wales. With a population of 6,832. Pontardawe forms part of the county borough of Neath Port Talbot. On the opposite bank of the River Tawe, the villages of Alltwen and Rhos, part of the community of Cilybebyll. Pontardawe is at the crossroads of the A474 road and the A4067 road.

Neath is a market town and community situated in the Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town has a population of 50,658. The town is located on the River Neath, seven miles of Swansea.

Swansea is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea and the city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in the south-west of Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay City Region.

During the 19th-century industrial heyday, Swansea was the key centre of the copper-smelting industry, earning the nickname Copperopolis.