Margam Park - From The Air

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Margam Park is a beautiful country estate near Port Talbot in South Wales. Its lands include the remains of an Abbey, large Country House and a small chapel on top of a hill which overlooks it all. You will also find a beautiful 18th-century Orangery, a museum, adventurous activities in the forest and lakes, a small zoo, stunning walks and herds of deer on the grounds. The park offers a wonderful day out with with majestic scenery, incredible buildings and various events in the summer.

Filmed: September 2020
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---- Short History ----

— Margam Abbey —
Built in 1147 FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
It’s suggested by nearby crosses that there was an earlier Celtic monastic community there before.
William of Clairvaux was the founding abbot.
The unusually large, 12 sided chapter house dates to the 13th century.
It was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England and sold to Sir Rice Mansel in 1536.
But eventually it passed to the Talbot family through the female line.
The surviving nave still runs as parish church to this day.

— Chapel of St. Mary on the hill —
Known as Cryke Chaple, Hen Egwlys, Capel Mair and Capel Mair ar y Bryn over the years.
It was built in around 1490 for local peasants who couldn’t worship in the Abbey.

— Margam Castle —
Built between 1830 to r as a Victorian Country House.
The site has been occupied for 4,000 years.
It was designed in a Tudor Gothic style by the architect Thomas Hopper.
It took on various elements from the Talbot ancestral home, Lacock Abbey and Melbury House.
William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the pioneers of photography featured the castle in his early photographic experiments.
Margam Castle also features as the earliest known Welsh photograph taken in 1841.
It stayed in the Talbot family until 1941 when it was sold to David Evans-Bevan.
He found it too large to live in but couldn’t sell it on. It eventually fell into despair and held by Glamorgan County Council in 1973.
In 1977 a fire caused a lot of damage leading to its restoration.
It is now in the care of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council as a Grade I listed building.
Aside from its many supernatural/haunting attractions and features in various such shows it is a magnificent building, situated within the stunning Margam Park area.

— Margam Park —
The park covers around 850 acres.
The first mention of a garden was in 1661 and in 1727 the estates gardener drew up a catalogue of its many plants.
The Orangery was completed in 1793.
It was opened to the public in 1977 and in 1985 a sculpture park was established but has since closed.
On the estate are peacocks and a deer population that has existed since the Norman times. Rescued birds of pray and the rare Glamorgan cattle can also be found.
You can travel the ground on the Margam Park railway in the summer.
Fairs selling goods, car rallies and various other events are held on the estate during the summer.
In 2013 it came first in a list of 1448 of the nations favourite Green Flag Awards.
There is also an Early warning radar which was used during WWII.

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