Aberdulais Falls
Rhaeadr Aberdulais
A waterfall and tinworks ruin managed by the National Trust, where Europe’s largest generating waterwheel still turns.
Aberdulais Falls sits at the entrance to the Vale of Neath. For more than 400 years the waterfall powered copper and tin smelting workshops. Today the industrial remains are preserved, along with a generating waterwheel about 8 metres in diameter, one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The painter J. M. W. Turner once sketched here. The site is managed by the National Trust and requires a ticket, and paths let you get close to the falls. It is about a 20-minute drive from Swansea.
Opening hours
About 10:00 am–4:00 pm (mainly open on winter weekends)
Nearby sights
- Margam Country Park
- Swansea Bay
- Dylan Thomas Centre
- Swansea Museum
- National Waterfront Museum
- Swansea Marina & Maritime Quarter
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
- Swansea Market