Trebanos () is a village in the
Swansea Valley, Wales. With Craig Trebanos and a part of
Pontardawe
Pontardawe () is a town and a community (Wales), community in the lower Swansea Valley (). it had a population of approximately 7,172 in the 2021 Census for Pontardawe Parish, and forms part of the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.
On the opp ...
, it forms the
Trebanos electoral ward in the
Neath Port Talbot
Neath Port Talbot () is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhon ...
county borough.
Controversy and opposition concerning the
South Wales Gas Pipeline passing through the village led to media attention for the village and a protest camp in 2006 and 2007.
Name
The village's name in standard
Welsh is 'Trebannws'. But in the Welsh-language dialect of the area, there is a tendency to pronounce the final vowel as an 'o'. This has given rise to the form 'Trebanos', which is the form usually used in English.
Education
A Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Trebanos, is located in the village.
Sport
Trebanos is home to the rugby union club
Trebanos RFC. Founded in 1887, as of May 2025 it plays in the
WRU Championship West league.
Notable residents
Notable people from Trebanos include
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
players
Bleddyn Bowen, who captained Wales to the 1988
Triple Crown;
Robert Jones, who was capped for Wales 54 times and helped win the 1988 Triple Crown;
fly-half Arwel Thomas, who was capped for Wales 23 times; and
openside flanker Justin Tipuric.
Greg Thomas, a first-class
cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
er and fast bowler, was born in Trebanos.
Actress Harriet Lewis, who played Maggie Post in the Welsh soap opera ''
Pobol y Cwm
''Pobol y Cwm'' (''People of the Valley''; ) is a Welsh-language soap opera produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, ''Pobol y Cwm'' was originally transmitted on BBC Cymru (now B ...
'', was born in Trebanos.
References
External link
www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Trebanos and surrounding area
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Villages in Neath Port Talbot
Swansea Valley